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  Liverpool Institute - Beatles Story Wiki
The school was a true measure of Liverpool’s intellectual capital and its old boys could be found in later life in many fields of professional distinction including the law, the Church, armed forces, politics, academia, government and colonial administration as well as commerce.
The Labour Party in Liverpool and elsewhere was opposed to selective schools and as Grammar schools were recruited by examination at aged 11, there was a long standing push towards 'comprehensives' (as non-selective schools were known) from that Party when it came into majority on the City Council.
On closure of the the Liverpool Institute for Boys and the later re-use of the much renovated and transformed building under the sponsorship of Paul (later Sir Paul) McCartney it became known as the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) which opened in 1995.
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  Liverpool Institute for Boys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Liverpool Institute for Boys was a grammar school with an excellent reputation.
Alan Durband, one of the founders of the Liverpool Everyman Theatre, was Paul’s English teacher, as well as one of the major inspirations for reknowned fantasy author Brian Jacques, the author of the Redwall series.
In 1985 the Liverpool Institute for Boys was closed.
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 Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) is a school in the English city of Liverpool that offers training in Acting, Dance, Music, Sound Technology, Arts Management, Technical Theatre, and Theatre Design.
It was a meeting of two ideas: Paul McCartney had discovered that his old school — the Liverpool Institute for Boys — was derelict, and wanted to be able to save it; Mark Featherstone-Witty had set up the Brit School in London, and wanted to try his ideas on a bigger scale.
Prospective companions usually attend the Institute at least once before they are invited to become companions in order to give masterclasses to students, or to participate in 'Conversation with' type question and answer sessions.
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 Liverpool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liverpool is governed by Liverpool City Council, one of five councils within the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and is one of England's core cities and its fifth most populous - 441,477 in 2002, with 1,362,026 in the Merseyside conurbation.
Liverpool is famous as a cultural centre, particularly for its connections with modern popular music; it is the birthplace of The Beatles.
Liverpool Tennis Development Programme based at Wavertree Tennis Centre is one of the largest in the UK Liverpool is also home to the Red Triangle Karate Club that provided many of the 1990 squad that won the World Shotokan Championships in Sunderland.
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 Liverpool - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Northwest England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary.
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was founded to address some of the problems created by trade, today it continues as a post graduate school and is one of only 2 institutions on planet Earth that house the de facto standard anti-venom respository.
Liverpool once possessed a very integrated transport system, until the deregulation of bus and rail services, and only now have there been plans to build a light rail system, Merseytram, the first since the city's tram system was dismantled in the 1950s.
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 A Brief History of Liverpool   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Liverpool was growing at this time but it still had a population of only 2,000 in 1600.
Liverpool began to grow rapidly in the late 17th century with the growth of English colonies in North America and the West Indies.
Liverpool grew to be the third largest port in the country behind London and Bristol.
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 Visitors to Liverpool
Liverpool grew in importance during the 18th century as a centre of the slave trade, and until the early 20th century through the export of the textiles from Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Liverpool became a county borough in 1207, and from its beginnings as a port it was associated with the transport of soldiers and military supplies to Ireland, and with general trade.
The port of Liverpool had long since eclipsed Chester in importance, and the area surrounding was also growing in importance, with industrial areas to the north (including the Cheshire salt deposits), the textile areas of the Pennines and their fringes, and the metallurgical areas of the Midlands.
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 Ron's Liverpool - Buildings
Liverpool has some superb buildings which amazingly were in general unappreciated until the last few years.
The building is at Wellington Road and Mill Street and was built in the memory of Florence Hall, daughter of Sir Bernard Hall after she died young.
Designed by Aubrey Thomas and probably the most recognizable building in Liverpool, it was completed in 1911 as the head office of the Royal Liver Friendly Society.
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 Liverpool
For boys there are in Liverpool the Catholic Institute under the Irish Christian Brothers, and St. Francis Xavier's College under the Jesuit Fathers, who have also a Catholic College in Preston, whilst in St. Helen's there is a Catholic Grammar School under the secular clergy and lay masters.
The ecclesiastical students for the diocese make their preparatory studies at St. Edward's College, Liverpool (established in 1842) and then study philosophy and theology at the diocesan seminary of St. Joseph's, Upholland, near Wigan.
Bishop O'Reilly died on 9 April, 1894, and was buried in the seminary.
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 Liverpool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liverpool Castle was built in the 13th century and was removed in
Tate Liverpool gallery houses the modern art collection of the Tate in the north of England.
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral), the largest brick building in the world, and the first enclosed integrated dock system in the world.
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 Boys from the Blackstuff
Boys From the Blackstuff, the first television series by Liverpool playwright Alan Bleasdale, was a technical and topical triumph for BBC English Regions Drama, capturing the public mood in 1982, at a time of economic recession and anxiety about unemployment.
Set in a grimly recognisable Liverpool, it chronicled the disparate and sometimes dissolute attempts of five former members of a tarmac gang to find work in a city hit hard by mounting unemployment and depression.
Equally important, it helped to establish Liverpool as a dramatic location of special significance, where brutality, decay and poverty could serve as a backdrop for the expression, through darkly defiant wit, of the resilience and spirit of ordinary people.
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 Articles - Liverpool   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Liverpool is also internationally famous for its connections with popular music - the city is the birthplace of The Beatles, the most successful band of all time.
Liverpool is situated along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, with the city centre located about 5 miles inland from the Irish Sea.
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was founded to address some of the problems created by trade, today it continues as a post graduate school and is one of only two institutions on planet Earth that house the de facto standard anti-venom repository.
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 Liverpool | London Travel
Liverpool has a well-deserved reputation as a party city and there are numerous traditional pubs, trendy bars and clubs for visitors to choose from.
In 2001, Liverpool Airport, situated near Speke in the south of the city, was renamed Liverpool John Lennon Airport, in honour of the late Beatle John Lennon.
Liverpool John Moores University is one of the polytechnics given university status in 1992 and is named after the owner of the Littlewoods retail group.
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 Education Liverpool Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It drew pupils from all over Liverpool while the other four grammar schools in the city only took pupils from their local catchment area.
The initial development of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts involved three separate groups who came together in 1989.
Paul McCartney, an old boy of the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, had long been dismayed by the sad state of his old school building which was falling into decay after the closure of the school in 1985.
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 A potted history
When Paul entered the Liverpool Institute for Boys (as it then was) in 1953, it was a premier Liverpool grammar school.
Today, we believe we are the only UK institution entirely devoted to the provision of higher education programmes across the spectrum of the performing arts.
The Liverpool Institute for Boys was a grammar school with an excellent reputation.
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 Liverpool School -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was founded on 12 November 1898, by a donation from Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, a Liverpool Shipowner.
The Liverpool Blue Coat School in Liverpool, United Kingdom, was founded in 1708 by Mr Bryan Blundell and Rev. Robert Styth as 'a school for teaching poor children to read, write and cast accounts'.
Despite pressure from Governmental and funding bodies Liverpool have maintained a firm stance against sharing the new ground with local rivals Everton, with "final" talks on a groundshare failing in January 2005.
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 Menin Gate
The Liverpool Scottish serving element of the King's and Cheshire Regiment marched a short distance to the Menin Gate with the Old Comrades and the standard of the Liverpool Scottish Regimental Association.
The Institute was a renowned Liverpool School and some scores of their Old Boys died with the Liverpool Scottish during the First World War.
The guests were the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Liverpool, the High Sheriff of Merseyside, the Rector of Liverpool, the Deputy Burgemeester of Ieper and Mrs Lignel, Major and Mrs Tony Swift, Mr and Mrs Piet Chielens and Mr Fernand Vanrobaeys and Ms Rose Wildermeersch.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Liverpool
In addition to the manliness of the Lancashire character and the example of sacrifice given by the Lancashire gentry, the Gerards, Blundells, Molyneuxes, Andertons, Cliftons, Scarisbricks, Gillows, the close connexion which Lancashire has always had with Ireland has done much for this preservation of the faith.
Traces of this connexion are seen in the old St. Patrick's Cross of Liverpool which was supposed to mark the spot where St.
Patrick preached before sailing to Ireland, and in the pre-Reformation chalice still preserved at Fernyhalgh, near Preston, which bears the date of 1529 and an inscription testifying that it was given by "Dosius Maguire, Chieftain of Fermanagh".
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 Pointers for Parents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During this slow rate of growth, or period of "latent growth", nutrients are being laid down to fuel the impending increase in growth during adolescence.
Teenage boys and girls need more calories and nutrients than at any other time in their lives.
Boys also need iron as a result of a sharp increase in blood volume and muscle mass.
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 BeatleLinks Fab Forum - Very famous old boy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sir Paul McCartney's years at the Liverpool Institute for Boys had a profound effect on not only his own future but that of popular music in general.
Although the Institute closed down in 1985, the ex-Beatle's connection with his old school continues in the form of LIPA, his "Fame" academy based in the old school building.
I want to set up a new hi-tech Institute, fully inclusive for the disabled, for the advancement of education in Liverpool, which was the terms of the original Institute.
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 Towards evidence based circumcision of English boys: survey of trends in practice -- Rickwood et al. 321 (7264): 792 -- ...
Although the proportion of English boys circumcised for medical reasons fell from 35% in the early 1930s to 6.5% by the mid-1980s,
Rates of circumcision (per 1000 boys/year), England (1984-6 and 1990-8), Mersey region (1975-97), and Liverpool children's hospitals (1975-97), overall and in three age ranges.
Too many English boys, especially those under 5 years of age, are still being circumcised because of misdiagnosis of phimosis.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search
When the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) first opened its doors to students in January 1996, it was Paul McCartney standing on the stage of the Paul McCartney auditorium that grabbed all the headlines.
Featherstone-Witty had been responsible for the opening of the British Record Industry Trust School in Croydon in 1992, and it was through his work with George Martin on this project that LIPA was born.
It was Martin who steered Featherstone-Witty in the direction of Liverpool, but once it had been decided to house the new centre in the former Liverpool Institute for Boys, McCartney's old school, it was perhaps inevitable that the ex-Beatle would grab all the headlines.
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 Stevens Institute of Technology
Over the years, the Institute evolved from a small four-year undergraduate college of engineering into a much larger multifaceted institution with considerable research activity and a variety of graduate and undergraduate programs stressing not only engineering, but also science and management.
Stevens also became the first major educational institution in the nation to implement a personal computer requirement in 1982.
The buyer was of the third generation of Stevenses, a family of landed gentry which came to colonial America in 1699.
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 Grade I, II and II* listed buildings in Liverpool - Liverpool Web Site and Forum
Liverpool Lamb Banana is now available to order.
A Liverpool club where The Beatles played their first gig has been given Grade II listed building status.
The Casbah Coffee Club was set up in the home of original Beatles' drummer, Pete Best, after his mother read about beat clubs in London.
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 Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts to Hold U.S. Auditions in Austin; Internationally Acclaimed School Was ...
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts to Hold U.S. Auditions in Austin; Internationally Acclaimed School Was Co-Founded By Paul McCartney
At the time, McCartney was looking for a way to help his hometown of Liverpool and had discovered that the 1825 building where he had attended school (then the Liverpool Institute for Boys) was in a state of decay.
As luck would have it, at about the same time, the City of Liverpool was looking into initiatives which could build on the city's reputation as a music city.
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 Data 3
In addition to thanking many members and friends for their gifts of Liverpool and kindred books to its library, the Society would also like to place on public record its grateful thanks to the various authors, and publishers for their kind donations of new publications.
“Liverpool, A Peoples History” 2nd edition, with expanded text, illustrations and photographs depicting Liverpool life, its days as a Tudor settlement, and its social and economic history to present day.
TIFFIN, Herbert J. “A History of the Liverpool Institute Schools, 1825-1935.” Illustrated with School records and attainments within the text, and produced in conjunction with the Liverpool Institute Old Boys’ Association.
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 Education | What it's like to work at ...
If anywhere is going to be able to capitalise on its reputation for a certain strength in the field of performing arts, it's Liverpool.
He discovered that the 1825 building that housed his old school - the Liverpool Institute for Boys - was standing derelict, and resolved to save it.
Macca was introduced by George Martin to Mark Featherstone-Witty, who had been inspired by the film Fame (no, really) to create a new kind of training to prepare performing artists for a long career in show business - and the rest is history.
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 ARCHIVE COLLECTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Liverpool Polytechnic - Presentation of Degrees and Diplomas, 1 97 8.
Outlines of the Aegina Marbles drawn from the statues at the Liverpool Royal Institution, Liverpool, George Smith, 1829.
Liverpool College of Art, Department of Printing, Certificate of Merit, 1950; 1951; 1952-53; 1956-57; 1957-58; 1958-59; 1959-60; 1960-61.
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