http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog The Bold Street Project Blog; The Street, The Art, The Research, The exhibition, The Community. Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:52:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2011/08/12/some-interesting-banking-stories/ 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: "She worked for Phillip Berger who sold mink coats the year was 1967/68.The T.V. celebs ... http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2011/04/27/memories-of-phillip-berger-fur-coats/ 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't find much out I thought I'd post it here to see if there is anyone who knows anything they can share. The first ... http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2011/02/25/recent-interesting-bold-street-emails/ 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 ... http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2010/10/05/stone-of-crows-its-the-mardi-gras/ I was contacted by Tony recently who ran the Bold Street Virgin shop in the early 70'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's account of the year he ran virgin ... http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2009/11/12/ponchos-pendolinos-revisted/ Apologies for our blogging silence over the last couple of months, Boldstreet'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 ... http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2009/02/03/writings-sent-in/ 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's. The gallery has been months in the planning, the vision of dedicated people such as Ron Formby (Scottie Press) ... http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2008/04/10/maggie-mays-and-james-william-carling/ "Liverpool is more than just 2008." 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's got his own show ... http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2008/02/29/port-of-culture/ As part of the New Year'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 ... http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2008/01/11/new-years-revolution/ When I was 11, it was the only place I was allowed to go shopping with my friend on our own...we felt so grown up. Her Mum would drop us off there & we were not allowed to go outside of Bold Street all day, we used to buy fake ... http://www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog/2007/12/04/bold-street-memories/