Liverpool Media Academy

Duke Street is a road in Liverpool, England. Situated in the city centre, it runs between Hanover Street and Upper Duke Street and is part of Liverpool's Ropewalks district.

Wolstenholme Creative Space (abbreviated as WCS) was an independent not-for-profit contemporary art gallery, music venue and artists' studio complex housed in the last surviving Georgian buildings in Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool. It developed in late 2009 from an earlier artist-run space, when the space's coordinators, Priya Sharma and Caroline Smith, assumed responsibility for the premises under the Wolstenholme Creative Space name and became its directors. WCS worked with external artists, collectives and organisations, while also producing its own programme of exhibitions and events. Its programme focused on emerging artists across a range of art forms, often drawing on DIY practices and responding creatively to the building and its deteriorated condition. The organisation also provided affordable studio space for more than 30 artists. In 2011, rents were reported to be "as little as £35 per month", with the studios spread across "several dilapidated floors". Wolstenholme Creative Space held a significant place within Liverpool's alternative arts scene. In 2012, The Double Negative described WCS, together with Red Wire and The Royal Standard, as three key artist-led spaces established after 2005, largely by graduates of Liverpool John Moores University. Around Wolstenholme Square, WCS formed part of a wider artistic shift alongside The Kazimier and MelloMello, as disused buildings were repurposed for music, performance and visual art. Its connection to Liverpool's independent music scene was further reinforced by Bido Lito! describing WCS as a "second home" for bands, artists and independent promoters. Having operated for "a little over three years", the Wolstenholme venue closed at the end of 2012 after the building was "deemed structurally unsound". The loss of WCS and other artistic spaces around Wolstenholme Square drew criticism in The Skinny, Liverpool Echo, The Post, and from Gabrielle de la Puente of The White Pube.

Liverpool ONE is a shopping, residential, and leisure complex in Liverpool, England. The project involved the redevelopment of 42 acres (170,000 m2) of land in the city centre. It is a retail-led development anchored by the department store John Lewis. Debenhams had previously been an anchor tenant until the closure of its Liverpool One store in March 2021. with additional elements including leisure facilities (such as a 14-screen Odeon cinema and 36-hole mini golf centre), apartments, offices, public open spaces, restaurants, and transport improvements. The completion of Liverpool ONE significantly boosted the local economy, while lifting Liverpool into the top five most popular retail destinations in the UK.Liverpool ONE is the largest open-air shopping centre in the UK and the ninth-largest shopping centre overall. Each store was created by a different architect, leading to stark differences between some buildings, one way in which Liverpool ONE differentiates itself from other shopping centres. The majority of the development was opened in phases on 29 May 2008 and 1 October 2008, during Liverpool's year as the European Capital of Culture, whilst the final residential units opened in early 2009. The cost of construction associated with the project was £500 million, with a total investment value of £920 million.

The Casartelli Building, built in 1760, was a grade II* listed building at the meeting of Hanover Street and Duke Street, Liverpool, England. It has now been replaced with a replica.

The Liverpool Academy of Arts was founded in Liverpool in April 1810 as a regional equivalent of the Royal Academy, London. It followed the Liverpool Society of Artists, first founded in 1769, which had a fitful existence until 1794. Two local art collectors, Henry Blundell and William Roscoe were its first Patron and Secretary, the Prince Regent George gave his patronage for the next three years, and it was actively promoted by presidents of the Royal Academy. Its membership included local artists such as the landscapists John Rathbone, Richard Ansdell, Thomas Chubbard, Alfred William Hunt and Charles Barber, and the sculptor John Gibson. Leading artists of the day competed for its prize of £50 for non-local contributors to its annual exhibition, including J. M. W. Turner, Henry Fuseli, John Martin and Joseph Wright of Derby. In the late 1850s, however, it split due to major disagreements following annual prizes being awarded to the then controversial Pre-Raphaelite painters, particularly to William Holman Hunt in 1852 for Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus and to Millais in 1857 for The Blind Girl. The Academy remained nominally in existence, continuing to hold annual exhibitions, but never regaining its national importance.

Built in 1716–17 as a charity school, Bluecoat Chambers in School Lane is the oldest surviving building in central Liverpool, England. Following the Liverpool Blue Coat School's move to another site in 1906, the building was rented from 1907 onwards by the Sandon Studios Society. Based on the presence of this art society and the subsequent formation of the Bluecoat Society of Arts in 1927, the successor organisation laid claim to being the oldest arts centre in Great Britain, now called the Bluecoat.

Gustav Adolf Church (Swedish: Gustav Adolfs kyrka) or the Scandinavian Seamen's Church (Swedish: Skandinaviska sjömanskyrkan) is a historical building located in Park Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It consists of a church, built between 1883 and 1884, and an attached minister's house, and provides a centre for the Liverpool International Nordic Community. The combined church and minister's house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

Cream is a nightclub that originally began as a weekly house music night at the now-demolished Nation nightclub in Liverpool. It ran in this format from October 1992 to June 2002. Cream also hosts the dance music festival Creamfields every August in Daresbury, Cheshire. Creamfields has won the award for Best Dance Event at the UK Festival Awards a record six times since the awards began 10 years ago, most recently in December 2014. In 2010, they also won the Music Week award for "Festival of the Year".In 2012, Live Nation acquired the Cream brand.Cream's home in Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool was demolished in 2016 as part of an urban regeneration project. Plans to build a new home for the nightclub as part of the development were retrospectively removed from the planning application.

Ava White was a 12-year-old British girl who was murdered by 14-year-old Harry Gilbertson on 25 November 2021, in the English city of Liverpool. She was murdered after an argument over a Snapchat video. Gilbertson was not named for legal reasons until 2025.

Bibby Line is a UK company concerned with shipping and marine operations. Its parent company, Bibby Line Group Limited, can be traced back to John Bibby who founded the company in 1807. The company along with the group is based in Liverpool. Since 2007, Bibby Line Group and its employees have donated over £10 million and thousands of volunteering hours to over 1,000 charitable causes.

The Athenaeum is a private members club in Liverpool, England. The club was founded to ensure the up-to-date provision of newspapers and pamphlets, and to create a library for the use of the merchants and professional men in the city. The original building was demolished, and replaced by a new building nearby, in 1924. The members of the club are known as Proprietors, because they subscribe to a share, and they include both men and women. The building contains a large library, and it is also used by the Proprietors for social functions. It can be hired for use by outside individuals and organisations.

Quiggins was an indoor market within Liverpool city centre. The market, which was home to many small 'alternative' stores, was located in adjacent three warehouse buildings on a site between School Lane, Peters Lane and College Lane. The main entrance was through the 1866 Palatine Building. Although Quiggins markets existed at several locations within Liverpool, these premises were the most well known in the city. The market closed in 2006 in order to be redeveloped as part of a massive development of Liverpool City Centre by the Grosvenor Group.