TOXTETH SHOP FRONTS | LIVERPOOL L8

SATURDAY AFTERNOON DJ SET AT GRUB MCR | SUMMER MELLOW....

A live recording from a Saturday afternoon @GRUBMCR at the Mayfield Depot, Manchester July 2017.

TRACKLIST:

ALEX A-GAME : BRAVER [ @SWINGTING SMOOTH EDIT ]

THE FLOATERS : FLOAT ON [ LONG VERSION ]

THE GARDENER : LILAC MOOR [ PARTS 1-4 ] [ @hollick_nobaddays ]

@max-essa : THEMES FROM THE HOOD, THE CAD & THE LOVELY

SEAHAWKS : STARWAYS [ VERSION @lenleise ] 

MARVYN GAYE : IS ANYBODY THINKING BOUT THE LIVING [ @idjutboys MIX ]

@christian-wood : ECM

MARK BARROT : SKETCHES B1 [ @international-feel ]

THE GARDENER : SECRET TRAIL [ @hollick_nobaddays ]

CLAUSE FOUR : BE THE ONE 

LET'S GET LOST VOL 17 : B1

THE UB'S : DISCO SYMPHONY

@psychemagik : WAKE UP EVERYBODY

DJ DISSE : WALK ON THE WILD SIDE [ @music-for-dreams ]

BA'LE YAROH : FOLLOW ME DUB [ SOPHIE LLOYD EDIT ] 

TRY TO FIND ME : MAKE DANCE [ @olfhannelecordings ] 

MOUNTAINEER : GOLDEN CHALK [ VERSION @IDJUTBOYS ]

DONNIE & JOE : OH BABY

@GRUBMCR - www.grubmcr.com/

Mayfield Manchester - mayfieldmanchester.co.uk/

RETAILING THE FUTURE | ELDON SQUARE SHOPPING CENTRE

Eldon Square in Newcastle opened in 1976 in a blaze of sci fi design...

 

With the help of the brilliant staff at Newcastle Libraries' Local Archive I looked through the original photos they've amassed from 1976/77 & into the 80s & 90s - various shots below, a lot of these I'd not seen before...

[ From the Eldon Square Wiki ] 

The redevelopment of Old Eldon Square, which was carried out in the mid 1970s, was controversial with Christopher Booker writing in 1978 that it was "perhaps the greatest single example of architectural vandalism in Britain since the war. Until ten years ago this most handsome piece of old Newcastle, with its blackened, post-classical frontages survived intact. 

Today only one side remains, the rest dominated by the astonishingly brutal shopping centre put up by Capital and Counties, turning its brick backside on the world in the most aggressive way, in order to lure Novocastrians into the softly-lit womb of the air-conditioned shopping malls within."^[3]

These aerial shots illustrate the scale of the site:

& some more interior, 1976 - 1979....

For more images of Eldon Square, check out this section on NCL Uni's 'Co-Curate' website. 

Last few pics of 70s Eldon Square...

It was all going so well.

Then in 1994...

Nowadays the future is here but Eldon Square is now out of time. A sad, bland place

:-( 

:-(