成人快手

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Joe
Come on everyone... Ringo lived in this house for only 3 years... his childhood home is in Admiral grove, which is across the road and is due to stay and be refurbished as part of this scheme ! Madryn Street is part of an area which is well past its sell by date, Ringos had the chance to comment and isnt interested in keeping slums so why are we... lets listen to the 72% majority in favour of clearance from the real people who live there now !!!

jason chaston
it's a tricky balance. liverpool does look to the past far too much, and face it, the beatles weren't that good anyway, but they did have a massive impact on popular culture that is unlikely to be bettered, so some sites should be preserved

Joel Bettison
I have moved to the UK for 6 months from New York City, where John Lennon and all the Beatles are worhipped like Gods! We even have our own Strawberry Fields in Central Park! What are you guys in Liverpool on? Taking out Ringo's birthplace? Closing the gates to the Fields forever? Maybe you 'scousers' just don't like our tourists anymore! Coz man are they gonna be upset when they see what you're doing!

Mary Huxham
I have lived in the same street all my life (66 years) and have seen the area deteriorate. It used to be very pleasant and I wouldn't live anywhere else. I have been a single mother since 1976,when I was widowed and left to bring up 4 children alone and worked continuously until a year ago mostly in the NHS locally. I would also like to point out that this proposal for Housing Renewal comes from the Government, as they want all housing to be up to standard by 2010 and they consider pre-1919 houses obsolete. By the way, we e-mailed Ringo for his comments and as we had no response.

Mar铆a Fl贸rez-Estrada
i麓m writing from Costa Rica. My son has flown all over from central america to Nine Madryn street, where he currently lives, as he studies y LIPA, and simultaneolusly works in whatever he cans to pay for his studies, and is so happy an proud of living in Ringo麓s old home: 驴how como you are going to end this?

Ste Dickson
If Mary Huxham wants a new house then why can聮t she have one? But the fact is it shouldn聮t have to mean pulling down the one that she already has 聳 maybe I would like to buy it off her, and then, as Nina points out, she could buy another one 聳 a nice new one, which could be built on any one of the vacant sites still left undeveloped from the last load of clearance. If I want a new house I don聮t expect that I should have one built for me, or that others should have to lose their home as a consequence.

Lisa
It is a national tradegy that communities are being tore apart in the name of 'progress'. Many families who own properties across teh country or who are tenants face eviction and demolition whilst no viable/valuable options are being proffered. This is not only unjust but inhumane.

Andreas Schulze B盲ing
I always thought we were beyond the age when you visited a blacksmith to pull out an aching tooth! I thought that would have been one of the lessons from the 70s clearances - seems Liverpool has learned nothing from its planning mistakes. Knocking down Ringo's birthplace is just a symbol of the authorities' ignorance of the whole city.

Lily O'Connor
As a resident of a Victorian terraced house located just off Lark Lane which has recently been put on the market by my landlord at the value of 拢145,000, I find it strange that similar houses in other parts of the City are being earmarked for demolition on the basis of 'low value'. The style and location of the homes due for demolition in the Welsh Streets is very similar to those around Lark Lane. Ringo's house is just a minute from Princes Park, and is even closer to town than mine. Does that not suggest that it is not the houses themselves but the tatty environment and the activities of Housing Association and Council landlords that have emptied the place out? Perhaps 'New Heartlands', the council and government need to re-think their plans in order to tackle those problems, before they repeat the mistakes of the past and pull down houses of a quality which we are incapable of building today. I am at a loss to see how demolishing houses will help to overcome low demand in these areas, as the community and heritage value there is one of the only things the neighbourhoods still have. So much of their dignity has already been destroyed by previous 'regeneration' efforts 聳 are we going to perform the coup de grace?

Adam Wilkinson
The previous post are all correct: Ringo's house is part of a much wider heritage, both in terms of great music and historic buildings. It is but one of up to 400,000 pre-1919 houses that are to be destroyed (along with the communities they contain) over the next 15 year across the north of England. Demolition should be the last resort, not the first.

Chris Preston
DON'T KNOCK DOWN RINGO STARR'S HOUSE & DON'T KNOCK DOWN MY HOUSE EITHER!!!! Liverpool City is not only planning to destroy more of its own precious "Culture" but is also planning to knock down my home and hundreds of others to make a quick profit. As usual the council finds it easier to demolish solid beautiful old houses and start afresh with flimsy ugly Brookside bungalows rather than take responsibility for its heritage and clean up long-neglected areas. Not to mention destroying a vibrant community!!!! But for once there seems to be healthy opposition to these plans led by a working mum (of Kelvin Grove), without whom, I believe, none of these issues would have ever been discussed. But should it really be left up to a single mother to fight the council alone? Its strikes me as a shame that the only way to get attention for this problem is by playing the Fame Game, but if that's the way it is then thanks to the 成人快手 for helping us out. Cheers guys! Maybe you could follow up with a program that outlines the plight of Liverpool folk (including musicians like myself) who actually still live in those houses!?

Shona Robson-Glyde
This important thing is not to identify the proposed loss of these buildings with Ringo Starr (great that he is). The destruction of the buildings, even if they are in need of restoration, would be the destruction of part of Liverpool's vernacular tradition of housing. This local style of architecture is not something that can be seen anywhere else. Vernacular architecture is exclusive to its local area. Buildings being constrcuted in local styles, with local materials, by local people. If houses 125 years old were proposed to be demolished anywhere then the arguments against the demolition would be the same. These historic buildings are currently housing a community. The loss of the buildings would be a loss of the heritage of the area and of the community. The fact that the area was the birthplace of Ringo Starr is an added bonus to its already important heritage.

Rob Burns
This is ludicrous. The beatles of which Ringo was a part were and still are one of our biggest money spinners. How many American tourists would like to view where this man was born. I wonder if they would do the same with Paul Mcartney's or better still the cavern club. I wasn't old enough to remember the group in their heyday but through my parents I fell in love with their music. At times when councils should be encouraging money into their towns and cities to aid the local populous why do they consider ill informed and daft ideas such as this?

Mr Chris Preston
I went to LIPA (Paul McCartney's Music College - built from the wreck of his derelict old school)) and graduated with First Class Honours, I was sponsored by the Beatles Museum and I have been a musician in Liverpool for ten years. Many people, artists and musicians from Liverpool are dependant on the Beatles legacy for their living. It is one of the main reasons for people to visit Liverpool. Save Ringo's house, save strawberry fields, remeber the cavern - there's hardly anything left to visit!!

Nina Edge
Fascinating report from the Welsh Streets. Councillor Radford is right to look at the bigger picture. These workers cottages feature in The Pevsner Archtectural Guide to Liverpool and are enjoyed by many visitors to the city as well as by many of their inhabitants. Clearly much of the most expensive and desirable housing in the country used to be workers cottages, from timber framed buildings to stone crofts. At some point in time much of it will have suffered from damp or ill repair. Housing of this age and type has succesfully been rennovated from Chelsea to Cheltenham so why not here ? There is ample vacant land in the area so Mary Huxham and others could have a new house with a garden too.

Cllr Steve Radford
It would be wrong to single out the Beatles former home The fact is thousands of Liverpool families face eviction and communities are being put under the bulldozer, It as if the council have not taken into account the rising house pricing and relative costs of renovation A policy of selective demolition is being superceded by excessive demolition.

Jonathan Brown
I really enjoyed your report tonight on the loss of Liverpool's heritage - it was fun but had a serious message, in that we all too easily take for granted buildings and communities that, once lost, can never be 'unbulldozed' again. Keep up the good work - it would be terrible for everyone in the North West and indeed in England if 'Ringo's Graceland' were to be lost for a short term developer profit.

geogre
hi im george from warrington and i wish of the building to be saved as a memorial as the beetles were a top class band like people remember elvis still they should remember beetles just like the LIPA building.