The Gallery - One Day in August

I decided to do my first (and quite possibly last) ever post for The Gallery hosted by Tara Cain at her Sticky Fingers blog today for two reasons. Not because I've taken a photograph that I am particularly proud of or desperate to share. No. The prompt was the first reason. It was to record One Day in August and specifically 29th August 2010. This date was chosen to coincide with the 3 bloggers heading to Bangladesh to support Save the Children. You can find out more about Blogladesh here. It's something well worth supporting and if by posting for The Gallery I could help spread the word then I really should, shouldn't I.

The second reason was that we already had plans for the date in question and it was possibly going to yield some interesting photographs. During the August bank holiday, Liverpool hosts the Matthew Street Music Festival. As you can probably guess, it is the culmination of a celebration of The Beatles in the city although is by no means limited to music of the Fab Four.

When did that happen?

I have found myself listening more and more to Radio Two recently. Anyone who knows me, knows how big a fan I am of radio and in particular local radio. I believe that radio, when used well, is a medium that can get people to interact and be involved with it. This is why I fell in love with local radio.

Home Town Tourist

How well do you know your home town? I don't mean the few streets that surround your house, I mean the buildings, the history, the stories of the places near to where you live.

I thought I knew my local area pretty well. Not perfect but, you know, enough to blag my way through a conversation with any tourist that decided I was a fit and proper person to ask a sensible question (yes, the water in that dock was exported to make the artificial snow at this years Winter Olympics).

I do have a good idea of the history of my home city of Liverpool. Did you know, for example, that the last act of the American Civil War happened in Liverpool Town Hall. The CSS Shenandoah surrendered there a few days after the Confederate collapse.