Penelope is in in Wolstenholme Square (hardly a square at all, just a widening of Gradwell Street), not Concert Square. The much smaller sculpture in Concert Square. of two figures dancing is Tango by Alan Jones. Not to be confused with Reconcilliation (two figures embracing) in Concert Street. See liverpoolwalks.com for an anotated virtual walk around Rope Walks sculpture and public art.
Thanks for the info Alan. I think public art is (mostly) a great idea and benefit to the community. One of the reasons for visiting Liverpool was to see Another Place at Crosby.
Time & Tide by Phillip Bews & Diane Gorvin, consists of two shaped steel columns, five metres high, each supporting a two metre high cast bronze figure. Between the two columns there are 50 metres of glass fibre reinforced cement panels fixed to the existing curved (Queen’s) dock wall. Both the column figures and the relief panels are concerned with ship repair business which was the former use of Queen’s Dock.
Central Hall by Bradshaw & Gass, Renshaw Street (currently Grand Central / Quiggins)
This building opened in 1905 as the Liverpool Central (Charles Garrett Memorial) Hall of The Liverpool Wesleyan Mission. It was designed as a new kind of church, looking more like a department store and the ground floor was always intended to contain sub-let shops or other businesses. Pevsner describes the architectural style as promiscuously mixing 'Classical, Byzantine, Gothic and Jacobean'.
Central Hall belongs to a group of buildings of the time, of which Westminster Hall in London is the best known. Although essentially churches, they were designed to provide many facilities and events to counter the call of the public house. At Central Hall this included commercial film shows. For a considerable period it was by far the largest cinema in Central Liverpool,seating 3,600 and taking standing customers too. From 1933 to 1939 it housed The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, whose building on Hope Street had been destroyed by fire. After use by The Department of Health & Social Security and a period of dereliction, it re-opened in 1998 as Grand Central, ironically a glorified public house. Part of the ground floor was styled Barcelona, a drinking establishment which played up the building's art-deco dressings with Gaudi-styled ground floor windows. The licensed premises are now reduced to an Irish themed pub, presently painted blue.
The main space beneath the highest dome now provides a home for the Quiggins emporium, a collective of arts & crafts and alternative traders, using the floor of the balconied hall. The building's original art nouveau dressings are of yellow terracotta against red brick. The entrance has a huge clock, flanked by two cartouches, each containing a liver bird. On the short Upper Newington side elevation there are swags and empty globed cartouches, a motif repeated along the longer Renshaw Street frontage. The whole assembly is a complex swirl of towers and turrets, domes and columns and bays and balconies. It is altogether a grander and more sumptuous building than our everyday passing allows.
Sources:
Pevsner Architectural Guides; Liverpool by Joseph Sharples
Nerve (hiding http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/nerve10/grand_central.php)
Wikipedia
This is a permanent installation by the Cuban born New York artist, Jorge Pardo, it is called Penelope (after the wife of Ulysses). If you want to know more go to Liverpoolwalks.com and search out the walk around the district called Rope Walks. There is a thumbnail of this sculpture, click on it to find out more. Just out of shot, to the right is the legendary nightclub home of Cream.
Penelope is in in Wolstenholme Square (hardly a square at all, just a widening of Gradwell Street), not Concert Square. The much smaller sculpture in Concert Square. of two figures dancing is Tango by Alan Jones. Not to be confused with Reconcilliation (two figures embracing) in Concert Street. See liverpoolwalks.com for an anotated virtual walk around Rope Walks sculpture and public art.
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That is not the landlord of the Toby Inn ,it is me waiting for a lift,hopefully that will clear that up.
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Thanks for the info Alan. I think public art is (mostly) a great idea and benefit to the community. One of the reasons for visiting Liverpool was to see Another Place at Crosby.
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Wrong place. Two kilometres too far south my amigo
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Thank you Alan
Many thanks for your comments and informations
This square, in the nigth, is a very fantastic place.
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Time & Tide by Phillip Bews & Diane Gorvin, consists of two shaped steel columns, five metres high, each supporting a two metre high cast bronze figure. Between the two columns there are 50 metres of glass fibre reinforced cement panels fixed to the existing curved (Queen’s) dock wall. Both the column figures and the relief panels are concerned with ship repair business which was the former use of Queen’s Dock.
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Central Hall by Bradshaw & Gass, Renshaw Street (currently Grand Central / Quiggins)
This building opened in 1905 as the Liverpool Central (Charles Garrett Memorial) Hall of The Liverpool Wesleyan Mission. It was designed as a new kind of church, looking more like a department store and the ground floor was always intended to contain sub-let shops or other businesses. Pevsner describes the architectural style as promiscuously mixing 'Classical, Byzantine, Gothic and Jacobean'. Central Hall belongs to a group of buildings of the time, of which Westminster Hall in London is the best known. Although essentially churches, they were designed to provide many facilities and events to counter the call of the public house. At Central Hall this included commercial film shows. For a considerable period it was by far the largest cinema in Central Liverpool,seating 3,600 and taking standing customers too. From 1933 to 1939 it housed The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, whose building on Hope Street had been destroyed by fire. After use by The Department of Health & Social Security and a period of dereliction, it re-opened in 1998 as Grand Central, ironically a glorified public house. Part of the ground floor was styled Barcelona, a drinking establishment which played up the building's art-deco dressings with Gaudi-styled ground floor windows. The licensed premises are now reduced to an Irish themed pub, presently painted blue. The main space beneath the highest dome now provides a home for the Quiggins emporium, a collective of arts & crafts and alternative traders, using the floor of the balconied hall. The building's original art nouveau dressings are of yellow terracotta against red brick. The entrance has a huge clock, flanked by two cartouches, each containing a liver bird. On the short Upper Newington side elevation there are swags and empty globed cartouches, a motif repeated along the longer Renshaw Street frontage. The whole assembly is a complex swirl of towers and turrets, domes and columns and bays and balconies. It is altogether a grander and more sumptuous building than our everyday passing allows.
Sources: Pevsner Architectural Guides; Liverpool by Joseph Sharples Nerve (hiding http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/nerve10/grand_central.php) Wikipedia
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This is a permanent installation by the Cuban born New York artist, Jorge Pardo, it is called Penelope (after the wife of Ulysses). If you want to know more go to Liverpoolwalks.com and search out the walk around the district called Rope Walks. There is a thumbnail of this sculpture, click on it to find out more. Just out of shot, to the right is the legendary nightclub home of Cream.
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