Archive for the ‘Arkleseizure’ Category
The old and the new…
It is a while since I have been on a building site, but Wednesday afternoon found me booted and suited again in builder chic in order to visit our new Head Office, now a large concrete shell being fitted out. There was a purpose to the visit to do with Electrickery but we also got [...]
In: Arkleseizure · Tagged with: offices
Mervyn Stockbridge Gould
A very good friend died recently and I’m getting lots of communication from others who knew him.
I was asked to write this Obituary which might possibly appear in The Stage next week.
I knew him for more than twenty years and admired him without knowing him for nearly as long before that from his widely published [...]
In: Arkleseizure, Culture, Memories, People, Showbiz, Techy
Nuns on the run
Last night, we went to St. Georges Hall in Bradford to see Rowetta and the London Community Gospel Choir do a platform performance of songs from the sister Act movies.
We saw the LCGC two years ago and I was blown away. Last night, the emphasis was less on Gospel and more on Soul, Motown style. [...]
Arkleseizure and Architecture.
Christians take Easter more seriously than Christmas, it seems. When we were in Liverpool Cathedral yesterday, the staff were making some form of floral arrangement round the base of a crucifix.
Being a comparatively recent construct, the detailing of the building is somewhat more stylised than the Medieval Cathedrals like York and Canterbury. The stained glass [...]
In: Architecture, Arkleseizure · Tagged with: Easter, Liverpool, Post Box
A trip up the tower
Liverpool has two Cathedrals, the Anglican Cathedral is the one that isn’t round. It is a 20th Century construct, being started in 1904 and not being completed until 1978. It is possible to visit the top of the tower via two lifts and 108 steps.
In: Architecture, Arkleseizure · Tagged with: Church, Liverpool, tower
