Posted by John on 6/25/2007, 9:33 pm, in reply to "(no subject)" --Previous Message-- Nice post. It is also getting the institutions of Merseyside to value and have vision about the dock waterways. Only for the United Nations, I fear much of the docks would have already have been filled in. An external body saved much of them - thank God, as many idiot locals would have seen them filled and made into car parks and shed built supermarkets. Despite the UN, some are partially filled preventing deep water vessels berthing near the city centre. That is a travesty in itself. We should be living amongst the waterways and enjoying the brilliant legacy. All water spaces should be sacrosanct and new water spaces cut out too. Every other city values their water heritage and expands them - except Liverpool..and the Wirral.
: Great wesbite! I am a History student at the
: university and this website articulates ver
: well many of the uneasy feelings I've had
: when walking down the docks and seeing the
: new developements, especially the
: multi-story car park at King's (shudder). I
: don't have any experience in objecting to
: political and corporate decisions/actions,
: so what can we do to get the message across
: that the docks need to be much better
: developed and respected? I'd very much up
: for taking part in something, and it looks
: like we need as many people as possible like
: John, to speak out. As a side note, I
: recently read a very inspiring book called
: "Soil and Soul". In it, Scottish
: writer and campaigning academic Alastair
: McIntosh shows how it is still possible for
: individuals and communities to take on the
: might of corporate power and emerge
: victorious. A reccommended read to anyone
: who's taken an interest in the saving of the
: Liverpool docks as this book shows that
: individuals and small goups can still stand
: up to 'the powers' and defeat them.
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