Category: Local History
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Block Works
Block Works is the latest concept based practice from Alison Little: comprising of a series of sculptural forms which represent areas of urban residence. An ethnology process where collections of discarded objects are cemented together in block form. The artifacts are selected and encased in the common urban material offering an explanation of those who…
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An engagement: at the Museum
An engagement: at the Museum The museum is relatively new, but the building historic and highly thought of in terms of grading by the authorities. It’s gold faced clocks hands speak out to the city as a symbol of ancestral culture. They glisten as a focal point from the hills which surround the port city…
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Arched: the Mural
Arched: the Mural was a design submitted for Leeds Kirkgate Market, proposed by Alison Little. The Mural draws inspiration from the cast iron Victorian arches which adorn the interior of Kirkgate Market. The central notion of a triangular structure frame is core to the composition. This is to be painted in gold acrylics to echo…
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Williamson’s Tunnels on…..
Last month a part of Heritage Week, Friends of Williamson Tunnels took us deep down into the hollows of Edge Hill to view the latest of their excavation work and forever new findings. The Williamson’s Tunnels were created over four decades starting from the early 1800s. Joseph Williamson, the man behind the labyrinth of passageways…
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Lister Steps Up!
Last weekend for Heritage open day the former library, Lister Steps throw open the doors for the public to see how the £3.9 million restoration project was progressing. Lister Steps, the Andrew Carnegie library, based on the corner of Lister Drive and Green Lane in Tuebrook, Liverpool, was opened in 1905. The building was funded…
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Game Over
I stand Tall The remains of Mee demolition The crew: Mee, the head man, Mo, Dow and Re-bow Got started last week The rest of the building knocked down: Demolished Kaput No more Outsides removed Core kept in place Outers ripped Splattered to the ground I stand as I have stood for fifty years A…
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in the woods
‘in the woods’ was a commision proposal for a nature trail to be sited near Alder Hay hospital by Alison Little. in the woods…. Trail, Woodland Walk, Springfield Park, Knotty Ash Specifications The trail looks to present a selection of 15 signs based on an element of nature, wildlife, insects and local history relevant to…
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