Saturday, 15 August 2020

The Chambre Hardman House. 57 Rodney Street-The Truth. PART TWO

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 PART TWO By chance I picked up a newspaper to read in a coffee shop at the corner of Brunswick street.  It was November 1999.  I n...
Friday, 24 July 2020

Edward Chambre Hardman. 59 Rodney Street-The Truth-PART ONE.

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Are The National Trust Liar's? PART ONE I noticed a poster tagged on the park gates of Reynolds Park in Church Road Woolton. It sa...
Friday, 3 July 2020

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. His Gothic Ideal Is All Around Us.

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 I still recall how I wandered around the war torn streets thinking that everywhere was damaged and forlorn, and covered in a thick black p...
Friday, 12 June 2020

Liverpool The City That Knocked The Cavern Club Down, Then Called Itself Beatles Town.

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I was born just off St Domingo Road in Everton, though it was nearer to the hallowed turf of Anfield.  The proximity to Anfield is what ...
Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Stranger On The Shore. By Acker Bilk-One Of My Favourite Things.

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Stranger On The Shore. By Acker Bilk. It seem topical and not hard to imagine the title of this tune in today's Isolated climate o...
Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Bathing Venus-Piece of the Week

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More  widely known as The Crouching Venus.  This study, after the antique and was cast mid 19th century. The Crouching Venus has been ex...
Sunday, 5 April 2020

Art Nouveau Corner Cabinet-Piece of the Week.

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Its an age since I purchased this Art Nouveau Corner cabinet in the South of France at a trade fair.  Its fragile alright. The work th...