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Metal Review on Daily Telegraph online
During September and October Metal has successfully launched our two newly renovated, Grade II listed spaces for art, events and conversation - Chalkwell Hall in Southend on Sea, and Edge Hill Station in Liverpool. These spaces have been created over the last two years, and are now open for business.
Click here to read a review in Daily Telegraph online by Dominic Cavendish.
Written by Colette Bailey 25 October 2009
Metal's Guinness World Record Attempt - Tomorrow, Monday 26th October 2009
Tomorrow, Metal launches its official attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous line of bunting. Working with the community of Southend on Sea over the last six months, over 9000 individual flags from school pupils, scouts, community groups, WI groups and individuals from across the borough have been stitched onto a ribbon that is the same length as Southend's famous pier - that is 1.3 miles long.
The above image shows the bunting as a work in progress at our Village Green festival in September (about a 3rd complete). The whole length is now complete and will be put up on exhibition in Chalkwell Park, Southend on Sea tomorrow, as Cllr Derek Jarvis, our 'community witness' clarifies the length, flag measurements and distance between each flag. We will then lodge the attempt with GWR. It will take a week to ten days to hear whether we have been successful or not.
Written by Colette Bailey 25 October 2009
Edge Hill opens...
Written by Colette Bailey 20 October 2009
Yellow Machines
Life is full of paradoxes.....
This great image taken a couple of days ago by Tom Bing who works with our good friends UHC in Manchester, shows the big yellow demolition truck, eagerly making inroads into the Victorian housing stock of Edge Hill. A rather forlorn mural of Stephenson's 'Rocket' stands quietly by.
Metal opens the newly restored Edge Hill Station buildings next Thursday, 22nd October. The buildings date from 1836, the year of Queen Victoria's coronation.
Written by Colette Bailey 13 October 2009
Seth Paris
Seth Paris, Felix Ngindu, Liverpool Youth and Formby brass band on stage at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Sunday 19th September, part of the Hope Street Feast.
Written by Colette Bailey 08 October 2009