Freshfield
Kenn Taylor swaps urban narrowness for Formby's winds and grit. The vastness of the vista when you reach the peak of...
24th April 2022
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The Allerton Oak
An extract from Mark Hooper’s upcoming ‘Great British Tree Biography’, with illustration by Amy Grimes. Oak, Calderstones Park, Allerton, Liverpool, England Believed...29th July 2021
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Bunnyman
Growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and ’70s, when skinheads, football violence and fear of just about everything was...22nd July 2021
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Francis Boyce, remembered
Frank Cottrell-Boyce remembers his late father, with a reimagining of a piece originally read on our Good Life Experience stage...21st July 2021
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A Tribute to Francis Boyce
Photo courtesy of Frank Cottrell-Boyce All of us at Caught by the River were saddened to hear of the recent...7th July 2021
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Two Cemeteries, Two Cities
Kenn Taylor contemplates two vast cemeteries; one in Liverpool, one in Bradford. All photographs by Kenn Taylor and Chris Gibson. Two...20th June 2021
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The Transit Camp Ophelia
Mightiest congratulations to Jeff Young and our friends at Little Toller on the news of Ghost Town’s much-deserved inclusion on...25th November 2020
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Many Rivers to Cross: Ferry Cross the Mersey
Melissa Mouchemore makes her latest crossing in the company of Gerry and the Pacemakers. …We saw a landing-stage, actually floating,...14th November 2020
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Ghost Town
Football terrace fashions, eccentric comedians, long-forgotten seedy nightclubs and thankfully not too much Beatles: Clinic's Ade Blackburn assesses Jeff Young's...10th April 2020
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Ghost Town: an extract
Jeff Young has long been fascinated with Liverpool, its history and how it intersects with his own life. In his...10th March 2020
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Into The Void
From Nick Power: Here is a short excerpt from Into The Void, which is a first-hand account of my year...21st July 2018
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You'll Never Walk Alone
Ahead of tonight's Caught by the River Mersey event, JD Beauvallet remembers the making of You'll Never Walk Alone -...17th January 2018
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Caught by the River Mersey: an audio accompaniment
We're sure we needn't remind you that our first event of the year - Caught by the River Mersey -...4th January 2018
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The Caught by the River Social Club: January
Here follows the details of our first CBTR Social Club of 2018. A celebration of Liverpool's mighty river and that...11th December 2017
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Every Wounded Soul: a poem by Nick Power
Every wounded soul all the pulled-apart nerves and knotted guts hearts that are heavy as a hundred-ton feelings that coalesce...9th December 2017
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And No Light Shall Falter: a poem by Nick Power
I will make you a pallet-bed cardboard and eiderdown for your return I will allay joint pain with diazepam scored...13th November 2017
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There Are Other Forces: a poem by Nick Power
During the month of The Kowloon I parted ways with my employer rain degged the raby mere where misspelled headstones...8th October 2017
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Welcome to the Dark Ages: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Mersey, and Ten Dead Perch
Lee Brackstone goes on a fishy Mersey mission in this behind-the-scenes glimpse at 'Welcome to the Dark Ages', the 3-day...27th August 2017