In the Library We have looked at the early days of the Newsroom and now we ascend the elegant horseshoe stairs to the Library. This occupied the two top floors of the building. On the first floor Church Street frontage, over the main door was a large pedimented window with pilasters and swags to decorate … Read more
To all aficionados of the built environment: I promised you some quirky architecture interest sessions only to be thwarted by an invisible terrorist that confined us all to barracks. Undaunted, and determined to beat it, I sped off with boundless enthusiasm and reckless speed into a digital cul-de-sac. As I trudged through the technological swamp … Read more
Senti, the health technology company which I started to solve the problem of scaling community respiratory services, is looking to raise its next round of investment. Our mission is tech-enabled precision and predictive medicine for people with Asthma and COPD (amongst other pulmonary conditions). We’re raising money in order to accelerate our product development and … Read more
“AN ORNAMENT TO THE TOWN” – THE MINUTE BOOK PROJECT As a historian with a concern in the period and the locality I took a considerable interest in the early Minute Books of the Athenaeum books and soon realised that the narrative they provided cast light on Liverpool in the period, on the minutiae of … Read more
Every Monday we profile one of our Members. This week in we are joined by Proprietor 111, Radio Merseyside’s Roger Phillips! Who are you? I present the lunchtime phone-in programme between 12 and 2 every weekday on BBC Radio Merseyside What is your greatest achievement? To have married wisely and between the two of us, … Read more
Co-edited by one of our Proprietors, Professor John Belchem, and their Artistic Director Bryan Biggs, our neighbours, from across the way are publishing a book to mark the 300th anniversary of the remarkable building!
Following election at yesterday’s Main Committee meeting, we are delighted to welcome seven Proprietors and two Associates to the Club; Dan Cornforth, Philip Jones, Lee Schofield, Thomas and Briony Vogiatzis, Peter Davidson, Graham Spring , Patrick Rupert Cottrell and Keith Simpson. We wish them many happy years of Membership to our Club and look forward … Read more
Yes, you can dance Scottish all over the world -and I have joined classes in Alexandria, USA, the Blue Mountains Australia, Hong Kong and France. And of course there are branches of the Royal Scottish Country Dancing Society(rscds.org) throughout the UK, including Liverpool. I was lucky to get a coveted ticket for a ball in … Read more
Dear Member, Tracing your share-holders? During the present situation when ‘time’ seems to be the only item we have an excess of, we wondered if some of you might be interested in the attached thesis. Stephen located this on-line and the author has given her permission for us to circulate it – fortunately she attended … Read more
Good day all, An interesting Chronicle today about what could have been. Yesterday evening a twitter user tagged the Club in a post of theirs, which led me to look through some of the older images of the Club, and subsequently, pictures of our previous premises on Church Street. I find with pictures, particularly older … Read more