May 7th - Probe Records

Probe Records - a real blast from the past for me! I have fond recollections of visits to this haven for 'Vinyl Sniffers', but when it was in its original Button Street location and Dead or Alive's frontman, Pete Burns, was one of the excrutiatingly fashionable (and, if I'm honest, scarily intimidating) counter staff. Originally set up by Geoff Turner, it continues to cater for all lovers and collectors of rare ('proper') records - sadly, one of the last of its kind...Love the juxtaposition with the faded painted advertisement for 'garage tools' on the wall behind and the electric blue tower of Urban Splash's Tea Factory poking over the flat roof.

February 28th 2010 - The Matchworks

A cloudspotter's dream today - strange, dark and beautiful clouds over head at The Matchworks on the Garston/Speke border. Formally the Bryant and May match factory, (where the work force had a 100% record for not going on strike!) the 1948 site became a flagship project for architects, Urban Splash. It is now converted into office space.

"Colour purple

Dream burning

February's sea"

Another month ends...Some of the photographs from February that didn't appear on the blog have been added to the slideshow.