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  • The A Sisters

    The A Sisters

    Harry Halon was in The A Sisters in the 1980’s. Here they are in glorious VHS.

  • How to cook chicken pie.

    How to cook chicken pie.

    Malcolm Bailey demonstrates how to make chicken pie.

  • Billy Hatton and The Fourmost

    Billy Hatton and The Fourmost

    The amazing Billy Hatton talks about his time with The Fourmost during Liverpool’s Merseybeat days. Guitarist/vocalist Brian O’Hara and best friend guitarist/vocalist Joey Bower formed The Two Jays in 1957 and did a six week tour of the Isle of Man. The group changed its name to the Four Jays in September 1959 when bass guitarist/singer Billy Hatton and drummer Brian Redman joined the group. They made their debut at the Cavern Club on 1 March 1961, nearly three weeks […]

  • The Saving of the Florrie

    The Saving of the Florrie

    The Florence Institute had lain in ruins for three decades, but it is now on course to once again become a hub of the community after a painstaking £6.4m restoration programme lasting nearly two years. See more here.

  • Ladies Day

    Ladies Day

    Ladies Day at Aintree is known as the biggest social and style day out in the North West. This episode features Matty Lyons and The Barbacoa in Crosby as well as music from Billy Strand

  • Grace The Swan

    Grace The Swan

    Adam Pope and Katherine Hannah from the BBC Radio Leeds Breakfast show, and are trying to travel the length of the Leeds to Liverpool canal in the Open Source Pedalo! They set off on Wednesday 14th and hope to arrive in Leeds on Friday 23rd – This is for Sport Relief 2012 and you can sponsor them here You can see what happened when Grace arrived in Leeds in a video by Sam Meech here.

  • Bourney Makes an Apple Pie

    Bourney Makes an Apple Pie

    Mr Bourne demonstrates how to make the best apple pie.

  • Demolition

    Demolition

  • Open Source Swan Pedalo

    Open Source Swan Pedalo

    What would you do with a Swan Pedalo?

  • Dave Webster

    Dave Webster

    Dave Webster has been originating and producing sculpture, architectural mouldings and much more since 1960.