http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/ Mr Brocklebank has joined the digital age to relay his musings to the good people of Merseyside and Cheshire via the internet. He will update regularly so make use of the bookmark facility on your browser, if you desire to do so. en Copyright 2008 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:11:33 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss AT LEAST business-friendly Liverpool finally got its act together. A bus in Dale Street carried a message for a city centre autumn business fair. http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/04/none_of_your_business.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/04/none_of_your_business.html Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:11:33 +0000 APPARENTLY, when the current Private Eye edition featuring Liverpool’s dire redevelopment controversies was shown to Cllr David Irving, Liverpool City planning committee chairman, he replied: “Many thanks for your concern, to put it in the words of Catherine Tate, ‘Am I bovvered?’.” Is this the same Cllr Irving who was a committee member during the controversial demolition of 6 Sir Thomas Street and the even more controversial Pier Head – Mann Island redevelopment which took Liverpool to the brink of being stripped of World Heritage Site status? ]]> http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/04/why_cllr_irving_really_should.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/04/why_cllr_irving_really_should.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:07:45 +0000 FANCY that! Stung by countless times that English Heritage activities (or lack of them) in Liverpool have been heavily criticised in national satirical magazine Private Eye, the organisation made an official complaint. http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/04/the_eyes_have_it.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/04/the_eyes_have_it.html Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:07:05 +0000 THE Manchester-based AEW Architects, chosen by National Museums Liverpool to replace sacked award-winning Danish architects 3XN on the new Museum of Liverpool Mann Island project, lists major clients McDonald’s Restaurants and Total Fitness Centres on its website. Can we look forward to Big Macs, fries and a free top-up tan at the gala opening? http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/04/liverpool_looks_forward_to_som.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/04/liverpool_looks_forward_to_som.html Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:12:43 +0000 LIVERPOOL’S economic upturn was confirmed by the sight of a Bugatti Veron, the world’s fastest production car, parked in Moorfields. Not fast enough, though, to stop our fleet-footed traffic attendants crowning it with a ticket. One for the national parking awards! http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/04/vroom_vroom.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/04/vroom_vroom.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:13:40 +0000 WHEN will Merseyrail mugwumps learn the non-arrival of a train is a certain cause of inconvenience to its long-suffering public? The present mealy-mouthed announcement for the latest failure, as in "Merseyrail would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may cause", is in almost every true circumstance nonsensical. http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/any_chance_of_honesty_merseyra.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/any_chance_of_honesty_merseyra.html Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:18:04 +0000 IS THE naming of the Bling Building by Grosvenor’s Liverpool One a further distressing lapse into informality – or an example of this city’s celebrated honesty? http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/bling_bling.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/bling_bling.html Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:17:13 +0000 MR BROCKLEBANK warmly applauds the stern rebuke delivered to the elders of the Roman Catholic Church, in Liverpool, for their failure to find a fitting use for St Mary of the Angels church, in Fox Street, Everton Brow, from Dr Richard Pollard, of California, great- nephew of White Star Line heiress Amy Elizabeth Imrie, who founded, financed and furnished the church. http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/california_delivers_some_commo.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/california_delivers_some_commo.html Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:16:10 +0000 CARS impounded for various road offences are displayed outside Merseyside Police HQ, at Canning Place. Is this the modern equivalent of having the decapitated heads of wrong-doers on poles over the city gates? http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/string_em_up_mr_hoganhowe.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/string_em_up_mr_hoganhowe.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:15:34 +0000 NEVER one to exacerbate international diplomatic tension, Mr Brocklebank feels impelled to report that Merseyside sources firmly deny that the Swiss government, on behalf of a Zurich group for height- challenged bankers, is demanding that the four gnomes on the facade of the Hard Day’s Night Hotel should be restored to their rightful place in the Basle Cuckoo Clock, William Tell & Holey Cheese Theme Park. "The truth of the matter is that these are figures based on a little known troupe of strolling players. Their names are George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and John Lennon," says an exasperated hotel spokesman, "but I’m beginning to despair of anyone accepting that. http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/are_the_fab_four_really_just_s.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/are_the_fab_four_really_just_s.html Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:14:28 +0000 FOR a city council which routinely pleads poverty, Liverpool showed exceptional generosity in 2006 by spending £200,000 to prop up the historic Georgian terrace of Nos 68, 70 and 72, Seel Street. http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/so_generous_the_city_council.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/so_generous_the_city_council.html Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:30:36 +0000 WRITER Fay Weldon has told on her friend and Crosby’s greatest living novelist, Dame Beryl Bainbridge. http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/is_that_the_queen_or_vera_lynn.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/is_that_the_queen_or_vera_lynn.html Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:29:48 +0000 WHILE promenading in the city, Mr Brocklebank was button-holed by an over-excited visitor, his faced etched with impatience, who shouted: “I’ve been sold this ticket by Ryanair to come to the city of culture and it’s the city of holes.” http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/impatient_tourists.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/03/impatient_tourists.html Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:29:06 +0000 HOW amusing that the celebrated late sculptor Arthur Dooley was commemorated by the Band of the Irish Guards playing at Liverpool Academy. http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/02/mistaken_identity.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/02/mistaken_identity.html Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:28:22 +0000 LIVERPOOL Lib-Dem executive Cllr Flo Clucas was officially cleared of accusations by Labour group leader Cllr Joe Anderson that she helped block plans to redevelop the former Irish Centre, in Mount Pleasant. http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/01/and_so_the_rot_continues_to_se.html http://brocklebank.merseyblogs.co.uk/2008/01/and_so_the_rot_continues_to_se.html Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:51:21 +0000