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Letters to Editor... Decorative Lights Reply.
Southport Reporter
THE question of the current monetary outlay is of course a thorny one concerning the Christmas committee. The visible evidence is only a proportion of the £££'s spent to provide decorative lights in the Town Centre.
What I ask is that any queries like this have to take into consideration the cost of the infrastructure and the supply of the man-hours to do that.
The ongoing maintenance / repairs / replacement of the lights and the purchase of new ones - also the costs incurred of actually having the lights lit, electricity etc-- this too is borne by the Christmas Committee.
The time given by the many members of the Committee is often pro-bono and is not a burden on the 'pot'.
As a founder member of this committee, indeed the person who first started a campaign for Christmas Lights, I feel very strongly about this and can say that every penny spent has been under strong consideration before the go-ahead is given.
If anyone has any better ideas about how the money should be spent to produce a better display I am sure that the committee would be willing to listen - provided that the idea was backed by a financial statement of initial cost.
This is a subject dear to my heart and I am fed up with criticism without any constructive ideas being mooted.
Yours DLP
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Last weeks letter...
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LOCAL PEOPLE SET TO HELP UNLOCK SECRETS OF LIVERPOOL DERELICT LANDMARKS
TWO of Liverpool's most historic buildings are to see the spotlight in a TV documentary screened in the New Year.
Producers of 'Derelict Discoveries' are appealing for the help of the local community to gain first hand information about The Albany and The Wellington Rooms.
The Albany, built in 1856, and was the meeting place for cotton merchants and has been derelict since the late 1980's. While the Wellington Rooms was built after the Battle of Waterloo as a testimony of the wealth in the area - quite a contradiction to what we see today.
Darren Hutchinson from Dreamscope Productions said:- "There's a wealth of information from local people and stories connected to these two buildings.
"They have clearly played a large part in Liverpool's business and leisure communities - the Albany within the cotton industry when it was the meeting place for merchants and The Wellington Rooms built as an assembly room and later used as the Irish Centre in Liverpool.
"We want to get under the skin of these buildings to hear stories, first hand. So we're keen to know about anyone who has relatives that may have worked in The Albany or has memories of good times in the Wellington Rooms."
Filming for the programme is set to start at the end of this month (October).
Anyone who may have a story about The Albany or The Wellington Rooms can call Jay Bates on 0161 234 0100
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