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		<title>Some interesting banking stories</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2011/08/12/some-interesting-banking-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the posts on the Bold Street blog attract much more conservation than others. Places like The Mardi Gras, the beautiful cafes and restaurants of Bold Street past (La Bussola, The Kardoma, Fullers and Reeces bringing up the most vivid memories) and of course, the Banks. Bold Street was a veritable who&#8217;s who of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Some of the posts on the Bold Street blog attract much more conservation than others. Places like The Mardi Gras, the beautiful cafes and restaurants of Bold Street past (La Bussola, The Kardoma, Fullers and Reeces bringing up the most vivid memories) and of course, the Banks. Bold Street was a veritable who&#8217;s who of banking during the early part of the 20th century and right up until the 1970&#8217;s.
Liverpool Savings Bank (now Tesco) was once the place to go and get involved with your finances and has evoked many memories including these from Gordon below.
&#8220;Regarding the TSB \'coin\', I believe I have one somewhere. I joined the  Liverpool Savings Bank from school in 1953, and spent over 37 years in  the TSB, latterly Lloyds TSB of course. I would think that the souvenir  would be worth a few pounds to a banking ephemera collector. I have a  recollection that they were issued in their thousands though to everyone  who made a deposit in an account during the special week, being  regarded more as a sort of medal than a coin.
Not sure if I can lay my hands on the medal, which from memory was about  the size of a florin (2/- piece). They were issued I think to  commemorate 150 years of Trustte Savings Banks, the first such bank  being acknowledge as Rev. Henry Duncan\'s in Ruthwell, Scotland, although  I believe there is a case for the claims of an earlier bank in  Edinburgh(?) which did however have a slightly different modus operandi  and rules. Duncan\'s model was perhaps nearer to the way the banks that  followed were set up. The little medals/coins were neither silver or  gold colour, but something between the two, sort of dull brass as I  recall&#8221;
This bank was also the location of one of my most recent Bold Street experiences. Walking up the street I noticed that the door to the upstairs rooms of the old Liverpool Savings Bank was open and peering inside I noticed a rather impressive cast-iron staircase stretching some 40 feet up into the upstairs rooms. It turns out that these impressive rooms are now being renovated and turned into a short stay apartment.
I was shown round by the owner of the apartment Lawrence who had discovered some interesting artefacts whilst in the process of renovating the rooms upstairs, probably once offices and board rooms. The finds included a bank receipt for the withdrawal of £28,000 in 1918 and glass slides depicting child-like scenes probably used in a magic lantern as a toy.
It made me curious as to the origins of this building, its grandiose appearance and its now multi-use as Tesco and apartment. The apartment is actually called &#8216;The Masonic&#8217; which alludes to its original use as a Masonic Lodge (and the reason the staircase bears a star motif?) which remains a popular members organisation in the city.
I am not sure when the building as transformed from a Masonic Lodge to a Bank but I have records showing it as a bank in 1875 so it must have been a pretty long-time ago, either way it now stands as a testament to a Bold Street that had a very diverse daytime activity and withdrawals of vast amounts of money.
Thank you to Gordon for sharing his pictures and memories with us and to Lawrence for letting us have a look inside the bank. You can see pics from this recent visit on our flickr here you can see more memories of the savings bank in other locations on the blog.
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		<title>Memories of Phillip Berger Fur Coats</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2011/04/27/memories-of-phillip-berger-fur-coats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was contacted by Irene a lady I work with in the North of Liverpool with a lovely story about her sister in law who now lives in New Zealand who once worked on Bold Street:
&#8220;She worked for Phillip Berger who sold mink coats the year was 1967/68.The T.V. celebs of the day used to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was contacted by Irene a lady I work with in the North of Liverpool with a lovely story about her sister in law who now lives in New Zealand who once worked on Bold Street:
&#8220;She worked for Phillip Berger who sold mink coats the year was 1967/68.The T.V. celebs of the day used to come in to buy them and also the &#8220;Winter Brothers&#8221; came in to buy their wives coats and would give the shop assistant a great tip.Next door to the shop was a great Deli which also had a great cake counter in it.On friday we would cook Mr Bergers lunch always sausage and eggs.There was also a paper/magazine stand at the bottom of Bold street.My memories of Bold street is that it was a very attractive street with lots of really nice shops especially jewelery shops.&#8221;
Thanks so much for Irene for this story, I&#8217;ll keep my eye out for anything related to the shop.
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		<title>Recent interesting Bold Street emails.</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2011/02/25/recent-interesting-bold-street-emails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently contacted by a couple of far-flung readers of the blog who wondered if I had any information on their family members and possessions.
As I couldn&#8217;t find much out I thought I&#8217;d post it here to see if there is anyone who knows anything they can share.
The first is from a Dr Whittingham [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was recently contacted by a couple of far-flung readers of the blog who wondered if I had any information on their family members and possessions.
As I couldn&#8217;t find much out I thought I&#8217;d post it here to see if there is anyone who knows anything they can share.
The first is from a Dr Whittingham whose enquiry was related to his Mum who once sold copies of a radical pamphlet in Bold Street. The pamphlet was called &#8216;White, Orange and Green&#8217; and was sold from an empty shop which was described as a &#8216;big, bare, shop&#8217; by the Liverpool Echo at the time (1936)
Bold Street has long had a history of radical activity, from protest to one of the first vegetarian cafe in the country so this discovery has really helped to reinforce this.
The second is from Victoria in Toronto who bought an antiques chair in Canada in 1974. She later discovered that the chair was made or sold in Bold Street and was branded with the name Hughes, Read &amp; Co 45 &amp; 47 Bold Street, Liverpool. According to the Gores Street directories I have which only go back to 1892 this is the location of the Liverpool Union Bank, now Pizza Pronto, Mr Chips and the sweet shop by Subway. The suggestion is that these chairs pre-date that. If anyone has any information about Hughes Read and Co Victoria and I would be really interested in hearing from you.Have a look here for images of the chairs.
Thank you to Dr Whittingham and Victoria for their contributions.
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		<title>Stone of Crows! Its the Mardi Gras!</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2010/10/05/stone-of-crows-its-the-mardi-gras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Yates</dc:creator>
		
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I have had a request for information from someone completing a bit of trivia about the Stone Roses who would like to know what date in August 1986 they played at the Mardi Gras, if anyone has anything about this please let me know and I can pass it onto Ed for his project. Thanks!

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I have had a request for information from someone completing a bit of trivia about the Stone Roses who would like to know what date in August 1986 they played at the Mardi Gras, if anyone has anything about this please let me know and I can pass it onto Ed for his project. Thanks!

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		<title>Ponchos + pendolinos revisted</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2009/11/12/ponchos-pendolinos-revisted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was contacted by Tony recently who ran the Bold Street Virgin shop in the early 70&#8217;s. I had thought that this was the first site (which I must admit did seem unlikely to me!) but Tony put me straight. Below is Tony&#8217;s account of the year he ran virgin Bold Street which makes a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was contacted by Tony recently who ran the Bold Street Virgin shop in the early 70&#8217;s. I had thought that this was the first site (which I must admit did seem unlikely to me!) but Tony put me straight. Below is Tony&#8217;s account of the year he ran virgin Bold Street which makes a great addition to our growing archive of all things Bold Street.
&#8220;I saw your article on the website about the Virgin Record Store in Bold St and felt I should reply. I opened the shop in about 1971 and was the first manager for about a year. This was the 3rd Virgin shop as the first was opened in Oxford St in London although we had run as a mail order business for cut price records some time before this. Brighton was next and Liverpool shortly after.
I arrived on my first day from London to find a carpenter and we proceeded to build the fittings for the shop including the counters and shelving, all do-it-yourself in those days as money was very short and we were fighting the big record companies to break the monopoly on record sales and provide customers with discounts. The shop had been a womens clothes/bridal shop before we took it over and was very large with lots of room upstairs. I think it was number 90 Bold St but cant be sure. I lived in the shop for some time before eventually finding a flat locally. We kept a rabbit at the time and sometimes she lived in the shop but had to be moved when she started chewing the alarm wires and setting it off in the middle of the night.
Most record shops of the time made you stand in a small booth to listen to records and limited the time you could spend there. Virgins philosophy was to give people a comfortable environment and no limit on how many records you could listen to hence the cushions. Richard had decided to sell waterbeds and at one point we had one as well as the cushions but this did not survive visits from the Scottie Rd School kids who delighted in sticking pins and knives into it until we had a very soggy carpet.
There wasnt a doorman in my day but if anyone was seen taking drugs they would be asked to leave as it risked the closure of the shop by the police. We were raided by the police once who arrived with dogs, plainclothes and lots of uniformed officers. They closed the shop and searched everyone there but nothing was found except a mess on the carpet by a police dog.
Sadly I do not have any photographs of the shop at this time.&#8221;
If anyone does have any photo&#8217;s of the Virgin Shop Bold Street we would love to see them. Thanks so much to Tony for this.
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		<title>Contributions to the Bold Street Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2009/02/03/writings-sent-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Yates</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for our blogging silence over the last couple of months, Boldstreet&#8217;s mother project tenantspin has taken up a lot of our time of late with some amazing projects which have helped us to spread our community TV wings into one of the cities most famous and influential gallery spaces (apart from FACT that is!!) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Apologies for our blogging silence over the last couple of months, Boldstreet&#8217;s mother project tenantspin has taken up a lot of our time of late with some amazing projects which have helped us to spread our community TV wings into one of the cities most famous and influential gallery spaces (apart from FACT that is!!) Check out our other projects at www.tenantspin.org and www.tenantspinontour.com.
So, for my first post in a while here is something sent to me recently, from Mark Shepard called Street People:
Street People March 1978
 Come into the silence of the crowded street
 There are some faces I&#8217;d like you to meet
 The ones that look like locked doors
 Concealing what&#8217;s inside
 The ones who don&#8217;t reveal to you 
 The music of their minds

 That man knows his beer glass
 Like a jeweler knows his jewels
 Another man knows his empty pockets
 Like a school boy knows his rules
 And the young man who just passed us now
Is  searching for a friend
 Who understands his solitude
 And knows how to make it end&#8230;

 Refrain:
Stand inside the echoes
Of this cold concrete
It&#8217;s like an ever moving photograph
Never to be complete
Hold the silence in your hand
Feel that it is wise
Assemble all your senses
and place them in your eyes

That girl knows the sidewalk
Like a songbird knows its cage
She&#8217;s a year from home and tired
Of lying about her age
The business men who know her best
Don&#8217;t know her very well
They&#8217;re too caught up inside themselves
With what she has to sell

Refrain:
Stand inside the echoes
Of this cold concrete
It&#8217;s like an ever moving photograph
Never to be complete
Hold the silence in your hand
Feel that it is wise
Assemble all your senses
and place them in your eyes

See the old man with the spaniel dog?
He loves it like a son
And sometimes in his room at night
He dreams that he is young
Some &#8220;victim of society&#8221; just stole a lady&#8217;s  purse
He eats the ground with his strong legs
And accelerates in bursts&#8230;

Refrain:
Stand inside the echoes
Of this cold concrete
It&#8217;s like an ever moving photograph
Never to be complete
Hold the silence in your hand
Feel that it is wise
Assemble all your senses
and place them in your eyes



See more of Marks work at www.markshepard.com. Thanks to Mark for submitting this poem.
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		<title>Maggie May&#8217;s and James William Carling</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2008/04/10/maggie-mays-and-james-william-carling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Yates</dc:creator>
		
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We recently attended the opening of a new gallery on Bold Street dedicated to the work of James William Carling in an upstairs room in our favourite Bold Street eatery, Maggie May&#8217;s.
The gallery has been months in the planning, the vision of dedicated people such as Ron Formby (Scottie Press) John Lea (owner of Maggie [...]]]></description>
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We recently attended the opening of a new gallery on Bold Street dedicated to the work of James William Carling in an upstairs room in our favourite Bold Street eatery, Maggie May&#8217;s.
The gallery has been months in the planning, the vision of dedicated people such as Ron Formby (Scottie Press) John Lea (owner of Maggie May&#8217;s cafe) and Michael Kelly (author of Liverpool&#8217;s Irish connection) and includes a selection of works on paper by the pauper artist now the property of The Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia USA.
James was born in Addison Street Vauxhall 150 years ago and soon discovered he had a talent for painting and drawing, specifically street scenes and portraits of local places and characters which caught his imagination. The interesting thing about these images are that they capture the spirit and atmosphere of Liverpool during these years from the perspective of the ordinary working people.
Carling also cut a familia character particularly on Bold Street were he was seen most days in his childhood at work on chalk pavement representations of scenes around Liverpool and beyond begging for money from the wealthy patrons of the fashionable street.
After a 4 year spell in America Carling returned to England with a view to attending the Royal College of Art in London but this was not meant to be and he died at aged 29 from drinking related illnesses in poverty in Liverpool and was consequently buried in a paupers grave in Walton.
His work will be exhibited in this gallery above Maggie Mays cafe in Bold Street alongside other works throughout the year.
Click here to read more about Carling.
For more information about the gallery call into Maggie Mays or email laura.yates@fact.co.uk and I will be glad to pass on your enquiries to Ron or John.
Maggie Mays serves a selection of traditional dishes as well as some very good scouse/Irish sausage from a local butcher which we were privaledged to taste at the opening morning on St. Patricks day.

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		<title>Port of Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2008/02/29/port-of-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Lips</dc:creator>
		
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&#8220;Liverpool is more than just 2008.&#8221;
Indeed, and local photographer and Bold Street Project contributor Pete Carr shows us how.
Pete contributed many amazing images of Bold Street to the Bold Street project - viewable on Flickr and at the time, in the exhibition at FACT. Now he&#8217;s got his own show &#8220;Port of Culture&#8221; on the [...]]]></description>
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&#8220;Liverpool is more than just 2008.&#8221;
Indeed, and local photographer and Bold Street Project contributor Pete Carr shows us how.
Pete contributed many amazing images of Bold Street to the Bold Street project - viewable on Flickr and at the time, in the exhibition at FACT. Now he&#8217;s got his own show &#8220;Port of Culture&#8221; on the Albert Dock (Unit 18, next to the Tate). Well worth the trip we reckon; Pete&#8217;s images are stunning!
In his own words:Port of Culture is an extension of a project I have been running for over 3 years called Vanilla Days. It&#8217;s a photographic site featuring a new image each day. I have been using this site to document Liverpool over the past few years from key events to cityscapes to simple images of life on the street. Port of Culture is a showcase of the best images featuring dramatic scenes from protests to classic local architecture. I wanted to show people that Liverpool is more than just 2008. The idea behind the name is basically that Liverpool&#8217;s new import / export is culture. The city was once a huge port and while that may have dwindled the city&#8217;s level of culture has grown. 2008, as the Capital of Culture, means that we&#8217;re now exporting everything that has made Liverpool great all over Europe. Our music, architecture, art, and people are all being exported for people to see. Liverpool is now a port of culture. The exhibition couldn&#8217;t have been held at a better location, the Albert Dock. A once popular dock back in its day and now a great place for artists to exhibit and perform. This exhibition is my contribution to 2008, my way of showing how great Liverpool is as the year starts. 
The exhibition runs till March 9th http://www.portofculture.co.uk/
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Revolution!</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2008/01/11/new-years-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Yates</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the New Year&#8217;s Revolution free event at FACT, join international artist Shu Lea Cheang and tenantspin in the Ropewalks Square soup kitchen as they serve up free scouse along with sound machines!
Eat Scouse, meet your neighbours, discuss what revolution means to you, share your aspirations, your doubts and your hopes for 2008.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As part of the New Year&#8217;s Revolution free event at FACT, join international artist Shu Lea Cheang and tenantspin in the Ropewalks Square soup kitchen as they serve up free scouse along with sound machines!
Eat Scouse, meet your neighbours, discuss what revolution means to you, share your aspirations, your doubts and your hopes for 2008.
This event continues FACT&#8217;s three-year BOLD programme of projects committing to finding new and meaningful ways for artists to work collaboratively.
Net-streaming live from Ropewalks Liverpool, UK at www.stream.fact.co.uk 
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		<title>Bold Street memories.</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2007/12/04/bold-street-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Yates</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was 11, it was the only place I was allowed to go shopping with my friend on our own&#8230;we felt so grown up. Her Mum would drop us off there &#38; we were not allowed to go outside of Bold Street all day, we used to buy fake cigarettes from a little joke [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When I was 11, it was the only place I was allowed to go shopping with my friend on our own&#8230;we felt so grown up. Her Mum would drop us off there &amp; we were not allowed to go outside of Bold Street all day, we used to buy fake cigarettes from a little joke shop that puffed out some form of talcum powder and wed sit on the benches trying to look older, pretending to smoke. 
Years later Bold Streets Caf Tabac was the meeting place for my friends and I at the weekend before going on to Macs &amp; the Mardi &#8230;what great nights out we had then. I had my 18th Birthday at the Four Seasons which was awful but cheap to hire and as I was too drunk to remember much of it, its of little importance where it was held.
I still love Bold Street, I can spend hours in Rennies, its like a second home to me.
Thank you to Carol Ramsay at the Liverpool Biennial for her memories.
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