The Welsh Streets of Liverpool: Nina Edge and Dr Gareth Carr Introduced by Professor Neil Jackson

The Welsh Streets of Liverpool: Nina Edge and Dr Gareth Carr Introduced by Professor Neil Jackson

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Welsh streets home group

‘’The Welsh Streets Home Group was formed in 2004 by some 20 neighbours who discovered their homes were included in what would be the biggest land clearances since the 1960’s. Their combined efforts brought together over 200 residents from across the proposed clearance site, all unwilling to see their homes and community destroyed. The Welsh Streets Home Group connected with other local groups opposed to demolition and to the national campaign co-ordinated by Homes Under Threat (WSL HUT) ‘’

http://www.welshstreets.co.uk

Resident Nina Edge has been a leader of that campaign

Dr Gareth Carr is an alumnus of Liverpool School of Architecture and is a Senior Lecturer at Wrexham Glyndwr University. His particular research interest is the work of Welsh-born architect and surveyor Richard Owens (1831-91), who established a very successful practice in mid-Victorian Liverpool; a practice that was to exist in the City for over a century. Gareth’s involvement in the ‘Welsh Streets’ campaign was as an expert witness for Save Britain’s Heritage in the Public Inquiry of June 2014, where evidence was presented of the historical importance of the Welsh Streets to the urban development of Victorian Liverpool.

Dr Gareth Carr was an important witness at the public enquiry and whose evidence disproved the developers' claims.

images from left to tight:

1 Welsh Streets 2017 - Shadows on Veolas Street to be repaired and re-occupied 2017

photograph Nina Edge

2 Welsh Streets Powis Street 2017 - Two houses painted black for the TV series Peaky Blinders

Photograph Jake Ryan

3 Nothing Happening in Kelvin Grove - Year 14 - Nina Edge artwork 2016

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