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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.
This [...]]]></description>
			<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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		<title>From ponchos to pendolinos&#8230;.!</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2007/11/28/loosing-my-virginityto-a-beanbag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Yates</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people had spoken to me about the Virgin music shop on Bold Street during the 1970&#8217;s but I hadn&#8217;t yet had a full account of the interior of the shop.
That all changed when I received an email from Murray Greenberg who remembers the shop well and sent me the story below to bring it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Many people had spoken to me about the Virgin music shop on Bold Street during the 1970&#8217;s but I hadn&#8217;t yet had a full account of the interior of the shop.
That all changed when I received an email from Murray Greenberg who remembers the shop well and sent me the story below to bring it back to life.
 I and three long- haired other friends who attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys from 1965 to the early 1970s (now Paul McCartney&#8217;s  Liverpool Institute for
Performing Arts (LIPA) ) would &#8216;escape&#8217; and go down to Rushworth&#8217;s  in
Whitechapel where you could listen to records in separate booths.
Then something happened !
About 1970 on the way down Bold Street we noticed that this new store had
opened. Virgin offered something different. As soon as you walked in you
could smell and see burning joss sticks.  There were several sets of large
head phones and the &#8216;hippyish&#8217; staff would gladly let you hear whole
albums. It was here I discovered Deep purple, Black Sabbath and Emerson
Lake and Palmer.  You get imported albums, unavailable in the UK and albums
were up to £1 cheaper than in the other record shops. Then they expanded
and opened the upper floor. They sold flared jeans , loon pants and
;&#8221;Afghan&#8221;  coats - big suede coats with sheepskin edging.  Then the shop
got too small for the stock - the Virgin empire was growing and the shop
moved to the St Johns Precinct shopping centre
We are all in our 50&#8217;s now but the memory is as clear as yesterday! 
The shop is now Maggie May&#8217;s cafe and has swapped beanbags for beans on toast! It is a favorite spot for refueling over a cup of tea and is soon to be the new venue for the William Carling Gallery. (more about that in another post!)
Thank you to Murray for his tales of the early Branson endeavors.

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		<title>Al Peterson, protest, art school and coffee!</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2007/10/04/al-peterson-protest-art-school-and-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Yates</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Peterson contacted me recently with a great story of radical Bold Street. Protest is  in the fabric of Bold Street and so to have a story of one such event really crystalises this, thank you Al!

&#8220;Bold Street became my gateway to my involvement with Arts &#38; Music ever since 1955 when I started [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Al Peterson contacted me recently with a great story of radical Bold Street. Protest is  in the fabric of Bold Street and so to have a story of one such event really crystalises this, thank you Al!

&#8220;Bold Street became my gateway to my involvement with Arts &amp; Music ever since 1955 when I started to attend Liverpool Junior School of Art in Gambia Terrace and
Liverpool College of Art Hope Street (1960"1965) as well as visiting my late great friend Adrian Henri who resided at 21 Mount Street.
After Junior Art School we used to meet up with girls at the El Cabbala in Bold Street and there experienced my first taste of Espresso Coffee and Spaghetti Bolognese.
In 1977 my band 29th &amp; Dearborns Sound Recording Studio was established at No 2 Mount Street.
My most recent escapade in Bold Street was with the Merseyside Stop the War Coalition to protest against Starbucks being the main supplier of coffee to the guards
and the other psychopaths that run that anomaly known Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
As you can see from the photograph we have adopted the much publicised fluorescent orange jump suits that the inmates are forced wear.
The protest lasted about 40 minutes before we were asked to leave by the manager accompanied by a security guard who had informed the police.

Merseyside Stop the War Coalition is a non-violent protest group that has organised numerous marches in London, Manchester and Liverpool.
They helped organise the largest Anti War Rally against the Iraq War that Britain has ever witnessed in London on the 15th February 2003.
News from Nowhere is the organisations main outlet for tickets and books for the various rallies and Anti-War information.&#8221;
Al also remembers El Cabbala coffee shop mentioned to me many times by different storytellers. This was obviously a really important venue for the youth of the 50&#8217;s &amp; 60&#8217;s and deserves a blog of its own so watch out for that coming soon! (I am still trying to find an image of it!)
Al&#8217;s views are not to be confused with the views of FACT, tenantspin or The Bold Street Project.
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		<title>Even more comments from the gallery</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2007/09/20/even-more-comments-from-the-gallery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2007/09/20/even-more-comments-from-the-gallery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Yates</dc:creator>
		
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&#8220;I think the future of Bold St. looks good.&#8221;
&#8220;Bold Street belongs to all people, past, present and future&#8221;.

&#8221;Bold street is great there&#8217;s always something happening, it&#8217;s tradition for me and my girlfriend to come to town every Saturday and go to as many shops on Bold St as we can. Forbidden planet, Home Bargains, [...]]]></description>
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&#8220;I think the future of Bold St. looks good.&#8221;
&#8220;Bold Street belongs to all people, past, present and future&#8221;.

&#8221;Bold street is great there&#8217;s always something happening, it&#8217;s tradition for me and my girlfriend to come to town every Saturday and go to as many shops on Bold St as we can. Forbidden planet, Home Bargains, Waterstones, HMV, Soul Cafe, etc. We wouldn&#8217;t know what we&#8217;d do with ourselves without it. The busking is great too.&#8221;

&#8220;After moving to Liverpool from the Wirral soon discovered Bold street as the place to meet people. It is much more bohemian than any other part of the city centre and as you walk down the street your would feel cultured by all the unique shops surrounding you.
I always seem to bump into somebody I know as I walk down the street and yet that doesn&#8217;t happen to me anywhere else like it does on BOLD STREET.&#8221;

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		<title>More comments from the gallery</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2007/09/20/more-comments-from-the-gallery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Yates</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When I was a teenager, I would hang round on a Saturday around Pryre records and the Palace and look at all the cool records and clothes we could&#8217;nt afford. When I was older I used to take Mondays off work and while everyone else was working I would buy books from &#8216;News from Nowhere&#8217; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;When I was a teenager, I would hang round on a Saturday around Pryre records and the Palace and look at all the cool records and clothes we could&#8217;nt afford. When I was older I used to take Mondays off work and while everyone else was working I would buy books from &#8216;News from Nowhere&#8217; and read them on St.Lukes steps with a rostie and a cake from Sayers. Now it&#8217;s been my high street for two years and I walk down it nearly everyday.&#8221;

&#8220;Bold street has never been far away from my life
-Dragged around the shops by my mum when i was a kid.
-In and out of the clubs in my teens and twenties.
-Now working in the new offices behind FACT.&#8221;
&#8220;My most abiding memory was when my girlfriend had a flat on Berry St 2003/4. A band were performng in &#8216;TABAC&#8217; window facing cut onto the street. It looked excellent and like I&#8217;ve never seen since.
Has anyone else? (Think it was on August Bank Holiday weekend)&#8221;
&#8220;We love Bold St keep it going!&#8221;
&#8220;Michelle - You have masterstroked Bold St. Joseph Cornell had Utopia Parkway-this is yours Thanks for the beauty.&#8221;
&#8220;Very interesting - great visuals and display&#8230; where&#8217;s Matta&#8217;s? Otherwise brilliant.&#8221;
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		<title>comments from the gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Yates</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Throughly enjoyed &#8216;The Bolder They Walk&#8217;, great job Kim, Chris and Alex. What can I say? Keep the gowns etc they suit you who is the stalker in the straw hat/pink bag? Started to do my head in a bit-nearly every shot!!!!
Stories of Bold street :-I can just about remember going to a record shop [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Throughly enjoyed &#8216;The Bolder They Walk&#8217;, great job Kim, Chris and Alex. What can I say? Keep the gowns etc they suit you who is the stalker in the straw hat/pink bag? Started to do my head in a bit-nearly every shot!!!!
Stories of Bold street :-I can just about remember going to a record shop in the late 60s with my elder, hippy/friendly brother (now mid 50s), all beanbags, smelly stuff!!!! And headphone booths to listen to the latest sounds.
Bold street is a beautiful to promenade along to St.Lukes at the top, What a sight. Love it!&#8221;

&#8220;My memories of lovely Bold street: My mum took me whan I was 9 and a half to the Lyceum Cafe at the bottom of Bold Street. I was so excited. I remember the high backed chairs, the polite waitresses in black dresses with white gowns. We had toasted tea cakes and I had &#8216;white lemonade&#8217; for the first time.
Later on still age 9 I went on saturdays to ballet classes Sheila Sillist Clark school and would buy myself a bar of chocolate from Thorntons which was halfway up the street.
Later on again i worked for 3 years as a secretary at 66 Bold street where i met my future husband in a quantity surveyors office. Also I bought my wedding dress for £16 in the sale at the shop called &#8216;M.Rose Laffway&#8217; up on the right hand side&#8221;.
&#8220;I remember The swans at the mardi- it was so loud I had a nosebleed!
Also I saw Peter Kay at the Life cycle before he became famous.
And the Bhunda Boys at Cafe Berlin.
Wilson&#8217;s Healthfood shop -where &#8216;News from nowhere&#8217; now live.
Characters wandering around Bold street- Pete Burns, Will Sergeant, Holly Johnson,Ian McCulloch, JayneCasey, all the cool Liverpool musicians - Julian Cope etc&#8230;
I also remember the 50p shop, the fur coat shop (which we used to campaign against), Cafe society - a really cool clothes shop, and 69A used to live in Bold St as well.
And Nick Cave did a book reading from &#8216;And the ass saw the Angel&#8217; at Waterstones- it was then situated in Reflex Bar where McMillan&#8217;s used to be.
Planet x was once home in MacMillan&#8217;s.&#8221;
&#8220;I have fond memories of the Mardi and MacMillans, where they played great music and I met some great Like minded people. They were places I found I fitted in, where I met the friends I still have and we remember our experiences there and long for them again, these places united us then and unite us still. Meeting anyone who used to go to the Mardi and Macs . Is like meeting an old friend, even if I&#8217;ve never met them before.&#8221;
&#8220;I always thought of Bold St as the bridge between people who came into the city to shop (in Church St) and people who live on the outskirts (such as Toxteth). Once it was the shopping area for the rich and then like the houses on Princes road fell into ruin. Bold St made a comeback and became a fashionable area for the young with 69A, Flip ,Mardi and Liverpool Palace. I didn&#8217;t wait to see designer shops + Coffee shops, I&#8217;d like to see an investment to bring the shops back to their former glory but a place of Art, Culture, Literature, Retro clothes and music from the people of Liverpool we have a lot to give.&#8221;

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		<title>Liverpool Savings Bank&#8230;a living memory.</title>
		<link>http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2007/09/18/liverpool-savings-banka-living-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Yates</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Liverpool Savings Bank, at one time a prominent and familiar banking corporation in Liverpool once had branches spread all over the city. Bold Street was no exception, many of the Bold Street memories collected over the period of the project mention the bank once at 93, 95 &#38; 97 (now Rapid Hardware Furniture Shop, coming [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Liverpool Savings Bank, at one time a prominent and familiar banking corporation in Liverpool once had branches spread all over the city. Bold Street was no exception, many of the Bold Street memories collected over the period of the project mention the bank once at 93, 95 &amp; 97 (now Rapid Hardware Furniture Shop, coming down from the top on the right hand side) which was once the main bank for the depositing of wages by Bold Street workers. It was taken over in the 70&#8217;s by Lloyds TSB.
Lesley, a lady I met at The League of Welldoers (Lee Jones Centre) on Limekiln Lane mentioned to me that she had once worked at the Bank and kindly agreed to write a story about the experience.
&#8220;I went for my interview at Liverpool Savings Bank Head Office in January 1973 " the letter said to report to the side door " no front entrance for me!!
I was shown into a small office right at the back of the banking hall " the space was vast " high ceiling and so many staff, mostly men and all in suits. Voices echoed from the counter although from where I stood you couldnt see it " there were so many screens and people.
Its hard to explain the smell " but all traditional banking halls had the same smell " of marble, polish and money!!
After the interview I was taken through the busy banking hall, managing a quick look at the high wooden counters, and then through a door which opened into a large stairwell. A grand staircase swept up to a first floor boardroom and offices, the impact of such a grand sight immediately made you want to whisper if it hadnt already struck you dumb!!
I passed my interview and was sent to work at Waterloo Branch but as junior I would go to Bold Street one a week to pick up the branch bag that would contain internal mail -  a great way to meet all the other branch juniors! One day Bold Streets manager called me to one side and asked where my suit jacket was " I explained I didnt have one " he was appalled, his opinion was that a female in trousers should wear them as a part of a suit (similar to the male staff) " I made sure I was wearing a skirt on all my other visits!
Many years later I actually got the chance to work at the branch although by then it was called TSB plc with the head office in another part of the country. The impressive boardroom had become a staff lunch room but the high wooden counter was still there as were the wonderful staircase and that unforgettable smell!!
Ive got really happy memories of Bold  Street branch even the cellars, which were a bit dank and spooky but held so many secrets. The floor was always a bit damp being below the water basin and much of the paper had water stains and smelt a bit funny but it was an amazing place to ferret around oops I mean tidy up!!&#8221;
Thank you to Lesley for this wonderful story.  
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