Headin' into town? Photos of the people and environs of Liverpool City Centre. A place I grew to love when I lived and worked there while partying through the vibrant and hedonistic 1980’s. That love for the city centre, the city centre that I came to belong...
Heswall and Memories These are some photos of my home town Heswall, taken recently during the daily lockdown walk. I’ve lived here for 20+ years, and during that period as all people will have to at some time in their lives, I’ve experienced loss. Not everybody...
Croxteth Park This is my favourite. I love the way the ivy covers this tree in Croxteth Park. The the ivy is so sinuous and tactile, almost looking like human forms from some angles. The tree beneath is protected, the bark not damaged by the ivy...
I’ve seen many people documenting their own lockdown stories since the pandemic began last year, so I guess I’m a little late with my own personal record. As an artist I’ve always take photographs but these ones are especially deep to me. Deep in meaning. Deep...
Bluecoat Garden Anna Burton University of Liverpool In 2016, I undertook a research project with the Bluecoat Gallery heritage team that involved creating a timeline for the garden space at the centre of this eighteenth-century building. The space only gradually developed into a garden (in a traditional...
Liverpool John Moores University Zi Lan Liao, Pagoda Arts I am interested in the tree, because when my father, who had come to Liverpool from China, was alive, he was very keen to have more of the gingko tree planted in Liverpool. He personally had grown some...
Speke Hall Anna Burton University of Liverpool Adam and Eve are two ancient yew trees within the courtyard of Speke Hall, a Tudor estate in South Liverpool, and the location of many day trips for me as a child (including going in full Tudor dress for a...
Calderstones Park Jon, Head Gardener, Calderstones Park Within the grounds of Calderstones Park in Liverpool stands an ancient Oak tree, propped up with metal supports which hold up its immense heavy branches. Known locally as the Allerton Oak, is reputed to be 1000 years old, which would...
Queens Drive, West Derby Dealga P O’Callaghan, Chartered Arboricultural Consultant Queen’s Drive in Liverpool, A5058, is known as the inner ring road running from Sefton Park in the south to Breeze Hill / Walton Hall Park in the north. It was constructed for Queen Victoria’s Golden...
This tree is located in Sefton Park towards Aigburth Road entrance I work on behalf of the family courts of a weekend providing contact with children and their non-residential parent. I take children to this Tree to climb do a snake hunt (rubber snakes) or just be...
THE PYTHON TREE OF CALDERSTONES PARK I often find shapes or creatures within trees and the pictures attached are of a tree I have nicknamed The Python Tree of Calderstones Park. It is situated in the Old English Garden and has the most fascinating interweaved branches...
SPRINGWOOD AVENUE I have chosen these trees because they show the range of colours of Liverpool and line the roads leading to 3 of the city’s cemetery's. Contributor: Jodie Duffy...
WOODBURNED TREES Over the past 6 months during lockdown I have been keeping myself sane by creating woodburned images of my favourite trees around Liverpool. I have become quite obsessed with the shapes and characteristics found within each tree, and in a year where the world has...
NORRIS GREEN PARK My favourite tree in Norris Green Park. It was a cold windy day but walking passed this tree is just showing how beautiful our planet is and it make me sad that some people don't care for it....
THE BEAUTIFUL OAK AT ST BRIDES CHURCH, CATHERINE STREET, IN OCTOBER 2020 St Brides has several beautiful trees but this oak is the most majestic of all. Its monumental scale gives it a reassuring permanence which has been especially comforting during the pandemic. This Autumn in...
ACER TREES Calderstones Park has been my local park since I was a small child and I have many fond memories of it over the years. My favourite feature of the park is the Japanese Garden with its stunning acer trees and beautiful tranquil atmosphere. The colours...
CHRISTMAS ALL YEAR LONG The Sefton coastline is defined not only by the sand dunes and beautiful beaches, but also the pinewoods. However, there are other trees one sees when walking near the sea - Christmas Trees! The sand dunes ecosystem is constantly changing and moving, very...
ALLERTON OAK This tree is the Allerton Oak in Calderstones Park, I picked this photo as my dad has a lot of health issues and every time I walk past this tree I think about the times we walked together past the tree with our last...
LIVERPOOL 8 This tree is in the front of my mums garden (liverpool 8) we thought it had died off a couple of years ago when we had a bad winter 😳 thankfully it didn't and its thriving now. It looks like a straw hut i...
SEFTON PARK This tree is not special to me on its own. It's just one of many trees that live in Sefton Park, just around the corner from where I live. However, in the past 10 months or so, as the pandemic has taken hold, the...
SYCAMORE TREE Two composite photos of the same tree, which I took over the course of the lockdown. I walk every morning and thought it would be interesting to record the sycamore tree leafing-up through spring and summer and shedding its leaves through autumn and winter. The...
THE LIVERPOOL TREE Back in the late 70’s when I was a photography student working on my Liverpool “Vauxhall" project, I produced quite a number of images of trees. This subject had been an important one to me at that time. I very much viewed the...
ST CHAD'S CHURCH Behind this wonderful tree you can just make out St Chad's Church, Kirkby. I was an Alter Boy singing in the church choir. This was one of many trees that surrounded this area around 1964 which I used to walk through on my...
APPLE TREE, PRINCES PARK When I moved to Liverpool I joined the Friends of Princes Park and was really excited to learn how to look after plants. This is the apple tree that I learned to prune on. I feel a bit like a proud parent and I still...
LONDON PLAIN TREES These are my favourite trees. Especially in winter. Maybe only in winter. The trunks and branches really stand out against the sky and it makes them look quite dramatic. London Plain trees on Brodie Avenue, Garston. Looking towards Garston Lifestyles Leisure Centre, Long...
FAVOURITE TREES Here are a few of my favourite trees from around liverpool. The first two are canopies in Southport Botanic Gardens and then a cherry blossom tree from Croxteth Country Park. The final one is the grounds of Walton Church spring 2019 when the old graveyard...
In 1956 I was a precocious 3 year old and was spending an afternoon with my Grandfather (Robert Kenrick), I am not sure quite why but my older brother, Tony, had been hospitalised with severe asthma around that time. My Father and his Father both...
THE SITTING TREE Situated close to the Fairy Glen beneath the Palm house in Sefton Park the sitting tree, magic tree or snert tree as we fondly used to call it, is actually a weeping elm. This small stunted tree has gnarled branches that are smooth from...
DANCING OAK This dancing oak tree from Oxton. He surprised me with his grace and beauty. Contributor: Alla Barkova...
THE BEECH TREES OF SOUTH LIVERPOOL I have walked for many miles through south Liverpool for work or pleasure, and everywhere there are beech trees. Sefton Park, Aigburth Road, Calderstones Park, Reynolds Park, Brodie Avenue – all have fine old specimens. I first met them on...
MAGIC SWEET TREE In Stanley Park there is a big oak tree surrounded by cast iron railings. When we were kids, my Dad would put a bag of sweets on the railings - he called it the sweet tree. We would walk round the tree and...
Image 1: My own front door. A place of safety. No one abusive has the keys. I have found my place of sanctuary. Image 2: Home. Is not always your own home. In this Poang chair, I can relax. I can be me. I can feel safe. It feels like home. And...
Born in Warrington I have watched it develop into a New Town when young, and now older I am watching it being demolished as the town sprawls outwards into the Green Belt with the town centre re-developed into apartments with ambitions of a future city...
The vision towards hometowns is we want the world to view Soweto as we view it but don’t want to change their perspective, just to show people that there’s a different side to what they often see. Our village is Soweto, based in Johannesburg South...
This partially illuminated sign was on the side of an old pub called ‘Mulvany’s Lounge’, it was mostly home to locals and always had a collection of old fellas teasing the last out of halves of mild in the doorway while smoking roll ups. In...
WEST KIRBY These are two photos of the same tree taken in the winters of 2017 and 2019 with different film and camera types. The tree is located on the beach between West Kirby and Hoylake facing Hilbre Island. The weather on the coast at that...
Newcastle Tyne Bridge and River. 2.00am. 1976. Wherever I move this goes with me. By Andrew Muse...
B Clarke’s and Family is the butchers right next door to our greengrocers. It was started in the 1950’s by Brian Clarke and his uncle. It has been open on Allerton Road since 1987, now the shop is managed by Vicki, Brian’s daughter. They describe...
Chandlers is another family business with a great old-school vibe - it feels like a shop straight from Gilmore Girls… This shop is a hardware store of sorts, though it sells anything and everything. I love visiting this shop and the highlight has to be...
Like many of these local businesses, Candice is an active player in the community. She’s excited about the area and keen to put it on the map. She often comes up with great local initiatives such as the recent ‘Tenner Festival’. Whenever I see her...
Claire and Marie are both colourful and upbeat women with a friendly attitude that lights up the clinic. This is reflected in the great relationships they have with their clients. When I came to photograph them, they were sitting together laughing over a cup of...
Pipe Dream is a noun a fanciful or impossible plan or hope Word origin: alluding to dreams produced by smoking an opium pipe In this project my main interest lies in the exploration of the subconscious and dreams. Photography is a good tool for discovery, as with...
Court Hey Park is a place that has been significant through my life. Being right behind my house that I have lived in for over a decade, this park has been home to many fond memories being so conveniently accessible. The photoshoot was very random...
THE MAN WHO TURNED INTO A TREE For many years I volunteered with Lancs Wildlife Trust on their red squirrel monitoring project, and my “patch” was a wonderful piece of woodland at Ince Blundell in Sefton. Whilst carrying out my monitoring, I noticed this tree and...
CHRISTMAS TREE Found old photo of our Christmas tree taken in the 70s we thought it was the best. Notice it’s standing on a cardboard box covered in wrapping paper. There was 10 of us kids 8 girls 2 boys and Christmas was always a very...
THE MYSTERY Here is one of my pictures during lockdown of a tree scene in the Mystery Park, Wavertree, Liverpool. I am a local abstract photographer based in Liverpool and walk in the Mystery park most days. The picture provides people to make their own interpretation and...
THE MYSTERY PT. 2 This was a set of 3 pictures from the Liverpool park “The Mystery” in Wavertree. They describe Liverpool to me in detail as a city. Unique, arty, setting a trend, strong, colourful, bright, beautiful, musical, and mysterious. The trees in this set of...
BEECH, LITTLE WOOD My favourite tree is this Beech (Fagus sylvatica) in Little Wood. A coach road linking Croxteth Hall, home of the Earls of Sefton with Knowsley Hall, home to the Earls of Derby runs through Little Wood. The majority of the trees were planted...
SILVER BIRCH For the last five years I have been working from my home working space, the Blue Room Writing Studio in the middle of a housing estate in L15, I call my flat Treeview as because it is on the third floor, all you can...
DAWN REDWOOD TREE IN SEFTON PARK Also known affectionately as the bong tree...
As part of the exhibition L— A City Through Its People at Open Eye Gallery, Emma Case shares stories of collected materials by Liverpool FC fans. Each item has an emotional connection to both the city and it's owner, together, they tell a story of...
As part of the exhibition L— A City Through Its People at Open Eye Gallery, Emma Case shares stories of collected materials by Liverpool FC fans. Each item has an emotional connection to both the city and it's owner, together, they tell a story of...
LIFE ROOMS I have sent you these trees from Life Rooms, Everard Avenue, Walton, Liverpool because they look so magical when the blossoms fall 🌸 !! Contributor: Linda Cheveau ...
SEFTON PARK LAKE This particular tree once sat on the hillside of Sefton Park Lake on the East side of the lake close to the stepping stones end. It has been my favourite tree for years and one I have captured so many times over the...
CROXTETH PARK Two trees Croxteth Park Liverpool. The bright red one is still holding onto life in November 2019. The beautiful colours remind us that each season is beautiful and the bare old tree behind reminds us that life will return in the Spring. Contributor: Phil Longfoot...
Old Swan Charlotte Corrie Open Culture We bought our house back in December 2009. It was in a very bad way and had been left to fall in on itself for a number of years. It was quite literally a 'project'. We bought it in part because...
Childwall Woods Brenda Cameron Secretary, Friends of Childwall Woods and Fields Childwall Woods is just 6 miles from the Liverpool city centre but when you step inside you would think you were in the middle of the countryside. The woods are wild and covered in twisted rhododendrons....
TREES APRIL 2020 - JANUARY 2021 Here are a set of images from April 2020 to Jan 2021 that has been part of my daily life one way or another. 1/ Art and craft therapy, Inspired by the tree out side my window. 2/ After my daughter moved...
SPRINGWOOD BEECH Makes me smile. Looks as though it has sprung up through the path when no one was looking. Contributor: Helen Hudson ...
THE MAGIC TREE This is ‘the magic tree’ located in Caldy Hill, Wirral. Climbed and crawled over by children of all ages, the trunk’s arms hold the ground and welcome adventure. Contributor: Lindsey Fooks...
While a lot of us are still isolated and working from home, we have had more time than usual to think about the spaces we're sharing and how we interact with the places we inhabit. Liverpool-based publisher, Dead Ink have begun a series of Desk...
During the Covid-19 global pandemic I started a journal as a source of catharsis to record my time, emotions and experience of the enforced lockdown. I translated this historic life experience into my artistic practice, and throughout the lockdown created sculptural and photographic responses of...
We spend so much time staring out of them, longing to be outside. During lock-down they were our portals to the outside world, it was through them that we had to communicate to some. But they also offer us light. By Antoine Genevier...
While a lot of us are still isolated and working from home, we have had more time than usual to think about the spaces we're sharing and how we interact with the places we inhabit. Liverpool-based publisher, Dead Ink have begun a series of Desk...
While a lot of us are still isolated and working from home, we have had more time than usual to think about the spaces we're sharing and how we interact with the places we inhabit. Liverpool-based publisher, Dead Ink have begun a series of Desk...
Restoring the Faith - The Repainting and Maintenance of Catholic Devotional Statuary in Ireland Catholic statuary found in shrines and grottoes remains a familiar sight in Ireland despite the diminishing influence of the church in a swiftly modernising society. Most statues are cast from concrete, fibreglass...
I took these photographs in 2018 during a Time and Space Residency with METAL, in Southend-on-Sea. They form part of my research for an international project about vulnerable wetlands and climate change in a range of river and coastal locations. The Essex locations I visited included...
This, all of it. The tissue and ligaments encased in skin is the shell keeping thousands of pieces of fairy tales together. This, all that has bound me to life. I have torn apart the warped wooden scenes, held matches to the hard backs, torn off their coverings...
