I'm sure youre all aware of the Super Lamb Banana's situation at the moment.
There's a campaign to get it placed in its spiritual home of Garston.

http://www.scouseology.com/files/showletter.jpg

If youve got time pop along.

It'll be egged like my house. It's the eggy one on Moss Street.

As soon as I saw the title of this thread, the parade in front of the bank on St Mary's immediately sprung to mind. It would be an ideal place IMO, diverting traffic off the bypass, past the shops (most of which are derelict) some of them hopefully stopping to spend in the area. It's a shame. St Mary's has potential, and it will be realised eventually. This end of Garston has a wealth of pubs etc, and ending up like South Road, Waterloo or even Lark Lane may be within its reach. There are northern line and WCML stations within five minutes walk.

I'd love this little patch of Garston to be heaving again, all the shops and flats occupied and people on the streets after 4:00PM.

:cheers:

That bypass killed Garston.

Is the Kwiky still there and the baths over the road?

Kwiky yes. Baths no.

There is a new Lifestyles baths on the rec. Looks quite smart, but I cannae fit through the front doors to find out....

What's happened to the baths? Isn't something happening or happened to the bus depot as well.

Years since I was in Garston.

Kev said there were plans for 100-odd apartments on the depot site. The market has gone too, it's in front of the shops by Iceland etc now.

Change your friging signature Mick! Or I'll resort to ****** ***** reeks of Gin!

Island Rd is nice. The rest of that end is shite.

Ta la. what's happened to the old market site?

New sig as well. Just for you mudman.

Cheers for the new sig Mick! The market is still derelict. I walk past it most weeks coming from New Mersey with the missus They even have the tattered cloth covers intact... The Palatine is still an anus though...

Is Garston proper about to boom?

The Garston pub site, the part of the docks over the bypass, under the bridge, the bus depot, the Parkway etc.

Allerton Road MkII.

Arseton Pub= about to be levelled ad turned into cheapo Leeds apartments.

You'll have to wait for the trolls to move from under the bridge for this place to really boom. Otherwise it'll just quietly go 'pop' every year or so....

Cheapo Leeds flats are spot on for Garston, it's downtowns they should be barred out of.

Garston folk prefer old brick and red paint to terracotta and alabaster....

A firm of solicitors has expanded in Garston and has described it as the next Boom area of Liverpool. A result of the success of the area in recent years. Many who cannot afford the house prices in more affluent areas will settle here.

Alex Corina (The artist who did the Mona Lennon for The Capital of Culture bid on the front of St. Georges Hall) is spearheading the push for the lamb to be in garston. He is also behind the Garston Cultural Village Campaign (http://culturalvillage.co.uk)

Garston docks was a big importer of bananas apparently and is thriving once more.

The area off Garston Village (towards the park) is great full of little gems.

If I go I'll post some pics of the day - beer has been promised by Alex.

:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Why can't it stay in town? :?

If Garston wants it, great. It is bad news, and doesnt belong in the city centre. Silly street art is okay at a very early stage in regeneration, but Liverpool has moved on.

If Garston wants it, great. It is bad news, and doesnt belong in the city centre. Silly street art is okay at a very early stage in regeneration, but Liverpool has moved on.

Liverpool has moved on, but I hope SLB stays put in the centre. Its one of my favorite pieces of public art, I hope it ends up at the Pier Head/Mann Island site.

Liverpool has moved on, but I hope SLB stays put in the centre. Its one of my favorite pieces of public art, I hope it ends up at the Pier Head/Mann Island site.Super Lambanana is an icon of Liverpool now, he/she/it/thing, should stay in Liverpool city centre and never leave. If he/she/it/thing were to leave, then a great disaster would befall Liverpool, maybe.......!!!!!! :runaway:

One of my prized possessions sitting on my mantel piece is a Superlambanana model, and I had a job getting hold of one. I eventually got one from the queens square tourist office and the lady who served me told me they were very popular with tourists.

I think it has to stay Downtown. Garston should be given something though, maybe a new model: Superlambanana 2. :)

One of my prized possessions sitting on my mantel piece is a Superlambanana model, and I had a job getting hold of one. I eventually got one from the queens square tourist office and the lady who served me told me they were very popular with tourists.
I want a Superlambanana model also, will try "queens square tourist office", or maybe the Beatles Experience, (since the S.L.B. is by Japanese artist Taro Chiezo), so hope they have them in.


Just thought...! We should have a giant inflatable S.L.B, hovering over the new Kings Dock Arena, or a S.L.B blimp for aerial views at football matches. :)

I'm sure youre all aware of the Super Lamb Banana's situation at the moment.
There's a campaign to get it placed in its spiritual home of Garston.

http://www.scouseology.com/files/showletter.jpg

If youve got time pop along.Wherever the S.L.B is placed it will have to be positioned in a safe position. In the above shots on busy roads, i can see underage "Jimmy Asbo's" crashing stolen Audi's into it and setting the thing on fire. :bash:

According to Downtown Liverpool it will be moved today and will be placed outside the Avril Robards Learning Resource Centre at the junction of Tithebarn St and Vauxhall Rd.

Have to agree with Woody, it could be interesting having it on the Mann Island site in the future.

One of my prized possessions sitting on my mantel piece is a Superlambanana model, and I had a job getting hold of one. I eventually got one from the queens square tourist office and the lady who served me told me they were very popular with tourists.

I think it has to stay Downtown. Garston should be given something though, maybe a new model: Superlambanana 2. :)
I know just the place for it :)
http://www.**************************/garstonlamb.jpg

Good idea Dave. Or, if the locals there oppose it, how about at Speke Airport? When you land at Manchester you see a Concorde (quite why the national airline donated that retired plane to Manchester Airport, which of course never had a scheduled Concorde service, and not Liverpool, well there we go again..........Manchester just gets given stuff, no questions asked), so maybe Liverpool Airport needs its own statue thing. The banana would be good there.

Good idea Dave. Or, if the locals there oppose it, how about at Speke Airport? When you land at Manchester you see a Concorde (quite why the national airline donated that retired plane to Manchester Airport, which of course never had a scheduled Concorde service, and not Liverpool, well there we go again..........Manchester just gets given stuff, no questions asked), so maybe Liverpool Airport needs its own statue thing. The banana would be good there.
Alright Liverpol, do you mean Speke Airport as in JLA or the old airport? I'm not nitpicking, I still call JLA "Speke Airport" out of habit. Nah, I reckon there should be a Lennon Museum at the JLA. If the Japanese can have a Lennon Museum (http://www.taisei.co.jp/museum/news/news/001005_e.html) why can't we?

Superlambanana on the move to new city home
Apr 14 2005
Liverpool Echo

The Superlambanana

SUPERLAMBANANA is moving to a new home in Liverpool city centre.

The once-reviled statue - now one of the city's favourite pieces of public art - will be placed in Tithebarn Street.

Its current home, outside the former Joseph P Lamb & Sons building in Wapping, is being developed for a luxury apartment block.

Specialist contractors will move the seventonne sculpture onto a lowloader this evening for its latest journey to John Moores University's Avril Robarts Centre.

Cllr Mike Storey, leader of Liverpool council, said: " Superlambanana has become a Liverpool landmark.

"It was always intended that it would move around the city.

"JMU was very keen to have it outside its building; there are a lot of young people in this area who will be delighted to have a new neighbour.

"Tithebarn Street is also undergoing major works as part of the city centre movement strategy so more and more visitors to the city centre will have a great view of Superlambanana."

Superlambanana was designed by Japanese artist Taro Chiezo.

Red, thought it was piece of shite at the time. I love it now. Always give it a lickle pat whenever I walk past it:weirdo:

I still call it Speke, Dave, like I call Manchester Ringway. I like my tempertature in F, not C. I'm not against the new names, I just can't be bothered using them. I resent the energy and resources senior managers put into image, branding and names - so it's a free and enjoyable way to subvert marketing *wats everywhere, using old names.

Photo's from the campain:

Bananas:
http://www.scouseology.com/banana/banana1.gif

The Venue:
http://www.scouseology.com/banana/banana2.gif

Roger Philips enjoying himself:
http://www.scouseology.com/banana/banana3.jpg

Alex Corina and Pal (plus Lamb):
http://www.scouseology.com/banana/banana4.gif

A Pile in the middle:
http://www.scouseology.com/banana/banana5.jpg

i love garston, my mates have all moved there after buying stupidly cheap three story terraces, tarted them up and now flogging them on a ridiculous profits. also had the best NYE party this year in garston.

Good photo's, Kev. Many people turn up?

A few turned up while I was there - surprisingly good setup, quite impressive. Alex Corina has a 'vision' posted all around the walls about the lamb banana/ garston cultural village campaign.

Probably be in the echo or merseymart or something.

PS - have you seen this by Alex Corina?

http://www.alexcorina.com/images/THETHREE_big.jpg

The 3 Graces its called

Kev can you explain a bit more about your last post please! :)

which part?

which part?

I've never seen that picture,where's it from?

I've never seen that picture,where's it from?

The Artist Alex Corina released this painting plus another featuring Wayne Rooney some months ago. I think he's re-releasing it again soon.

The 'Three Graces' celebrates Liverpool's Renaissance particularly its success at becoming European Capital of Culture 2008 and the fact that Liverpool received its city status in 1207 celebrating its 800 anniversary in 2007.

Has anyone else noticed a green looking SuperLamBanana.

How about that little round island on Church St?

Nice and central where everyone could appreciate it.

Of course it would virtually have to have a "minder" 24/7, but if they can do it for the Diani fountain....????

Has anyone else noticed a green looking SuperLamBanana.

Nope!

http://www.liverpoolviews.co.uk/dale/tithebarn/lamb17.jpg

Nope!

http://www.liverpoolviews.co.uk/dale/tithebarn/lamb17.jpg Or is that SuperSpearmintLamBanana flava'

Alex Corina emailed this morning with the following news:cheers:

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Dave

As part of the report I have included Jpgs of both the presentation to the Council Leader and the quirky picture itself with the Tale of The Trojan Lamb Banana. Hope you can use it.
Alex

Report of South Liverpool Business Leaders meeting at the Partnership for Learning Speke 25. 05. 06.

At the South Liverpool Business Leaders meeting on Thursday Garston Artist Alex Corina presented Council Leader Councillor Warren Bradley with a picture produced to Celebrate Liverpool Capital of Culture. The print Trojan Lamb Banana by artist Chris Vine is one of twelve Chris is working on for the Art Works Culture Capital of Culture Collection. The first four can be seen at 33-45 Parr Street.

Alex Corina who has led the campaign for the Lamb Banana to be returned to it's spiritual home asked Councillor Bradley when is it coming home to Garston?

Councillor Bradley responded ? I think it?s a great idea. I will go away and work on it with colleagues. We recently moved the Yellow Submarine to John Lennon airport. Garston will be the first, lets move it around the city so communities can benefit from what has become a city icon. I remember when the Lamb Banana first appeared people hated it and complained. If you tried to take it away now there would be a public outcry?.

Professor John Ashton Director of Public Health for the North West and supporter of the campaign said, ?It?s fantastic, Garston would make a perfect home for the lamb banana? explaining ?that the ship owner Sir Alfred Lewis Jones responsible, was a pioneer who not only imported and popularised the banana as a nutritional source of food for the working classes but was a founder of the school of tropical medicine in 1899 and also gave his name to the hospital in Garston.?

Alex Corina commented ?I was surprised, its great news. The Yellow Lamb Banana has become an icon representing Garston and Liverpool?s heritage of exporting lambs and importing bananas that combines both with humour. The other link is that not only was Garston docks the route for exporting importing , but that the sculpture was made in Garston at the old Bryant and May Factory?.

The Tale of the Trojan Lamb Banana

I hope you enjoy the story

'The Trojan Lamb Banana has been wheeled into the City of
Liverpool and placed on St. George's 'Greek Plateau'. Like the Trojan
Horse it stands and waits.

In the dead of night the clocks of the Liver Building are twinkling and
the people of Liverpool are fast asleep. All of a sudden a yellow door
on the side of the Lamb Banana opens; a red ladder is pushed out and a bunch of scaled-down copies of itself are released among the Corinthian and Ionic columns of the Walker Gallery and St. George's Hall.

The frisky little lambs take a quick sniff around and, with much bleating
and excitement, disperse to create as much artistic havoc as is
possible throughout the City of Liverpool.

Attached are Jpgs of the painting and Warren Bradley Receiving the print from Alex Corina. (ignore the portrait in the file).

A Limited Edition of prints of this painting are available. For further information printsatartworks@aol.com or phone 0776 338 8509

http://www.**************************/yelamb.jpg

http://www.**************************/alexwarren.jpg

is that for real? it would get destroyed in garston

is that for real? it would get destroyed in garston

:hahano:

It will probably get petrol bombed first, then left to rot for a while before being pulled down and replaced by a SuperNettoMarket. :)

If any one still wants their very own `SLB` then they are usually for sale in the `Liverpool 08 Place` Whitechapel.

Priced about £25.00

I do like that picture of it themed as a `Trojan SLB` though.

Maybe we could have a `Supermonkeybanna` to keep it company..... :)

I got the email too about the news. Would be great again for the area, not such a good idea if it were hidden amongst Garston Village. Should really go in a more public area such as the Garston Flyover/ Garston Way, entrance to the Garston Dock Road.

Disappointed to read a negative comment about Garston Maggie.

LIVERPOOL'S wandering Superlambanana could be on the move again, this time to what campaigners are calling its "spiritual home" in Garston.

The giant yellow sculpture, completed by Japanese artist Taro Chiezo in 1998 at a cost of £35,000, has moved to a number of city sites including Williamson Square and Wapping near the waterfront on its travels.

Its current home is outside the JMU building on Tithebarn Street, in the city centre.

Next stop, however, could be Garston.

Speaking at a meeting of south Liverpool business leaders in Speke, council leader Warren Bradley pledged that Garston would be the next place to have the Superlambanana.

He said: "I think it's a great idea. We recently moved the Yellow Submarine to John Lennon airport in Speke, so Garston could have the lambanana."

Cllr Bradley is following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Cllr Mike Storey, who said that it was always the intention that the work should be moved around the city for the benefit of all the community.

Cllr Bradley's remarks came at the meeting as he was given a print of Chris Vine's witty creation the Trojan Lamb Banana, which plays host to a number of smaller lambananas. It was presented by fellow artist Alex Corina who is also co-ordinator of the Garston Cultural Village campaign which has been pushing for Garston to be the sculpture's next home.

Mr Corina said: "It's great news. "The Superlambanana has become an icon representing Garston and Liverpool's heritage of exporting lambs and importing bananas that combines both with humour. The other link is that not only was Garston docks the route for exporting lambs and importing bananas, but that the sculpture was made in Garston at the old Bryant and May factory".

Another campaigner for Garston is Professor John Ashton, Woolton-born director of Public Health for the North West.

Prof Ashton said: "Garston would make a perfect home for the lambanana.

The local ship owner Sir Alfred Lewis Jones was a pioneer who not only imported and popularised the banana as a nutritional source of food for the working classes but was a founder of the School of Tropical Medicine in 1899 and also gave his name to the hospital in Garston."

The presentation followed the announcement of the results of a local referendum by the campaigners as to three potential sites where the sculpture should be sited in the area.

mikechapple@dailypost.co.uk