Re-root The Strand

Oct 2 2007 by Mr Brocklebank, Liverpool Daily Post

NOW that The Strand access tunnels to the huge new Grosvenor Liverpool One shopping development are finished, we are told that the road will be skewed back to its original position.

Will this also mean the replanting of the avenue of trees alongside The Strand? The Pier Head area, including Canada Boulevard and Mann Island, was totally deforested for deeply dubious reasons. The Strand trees were pointlessly felled for obstructing the Merseytram project. Remember that?

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A PITIFUL turnout at Woolton Picture House on Saturday for Across the Universe, a fine musical based on 33 Beatles songs.

Mr Brocklebank’s supper party accounted for six of the 26 patrons. This audience surely could not have paid that night’s staff wages.

One despairs if such an entertaining film, partly shot here and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais of Porridge fame, cannot attract the punters to Woolton.

Where is the support after the outcry and campaign to save this gem-like cinema? Come on, chaps, use it or lose it.

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RUMOURS that Mr Brocklebank’s esteemed colleague Lawrence Neild, Esq, is standing for Liverpool Council, apparently stem from a televisual appearance when he uttered the words: "In the constituency where I am standing."

This appertained to his geographical location and not his ambitions to take over the world.

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MEMO to Liverpool Culture Co: Do not forget to send a current "A to Zee" map guide to Culture year opening turn Richard Starkey, as the one he used on his last Liverpool visit will be out-dated.

The idea of perching Ringo on St George’s Hall roof (so the great unticketed can see him) is not original.

This was purloined from Her Majesty’s 50th anniversary big gig, when Queen’s Brian May strummed the National Anthem atop Buck House. What will Ringo perform from such lofty heights for the Culture Co? Help!?

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WILL Ringo wander along to the doomed Welsh Streets for one last look at his birthplace, 9 Madryn Street, before the two-up, two- down terraced cottage is flattened?

Or will he buy it in true Yankee style for shipping across the universe to his US pad?

WHY cannot the 08 Place sell Culture event tickets (without imposing hefty booking fees) rather than use a Nottingham- based agency?

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FANCY that: photographer Mike McCartney told a national newspaper last week that Beatles manager Brian Epstein "wanted to make me into a rock star, but we already have one of them in the family with our kid, so I decided to do other things. "

Mr Brocklebank applauds his sensible decision.