22nd July Eh, eh, calm down, calm down

Scousers on all sides of Stanley Park were being told to 'calm down, calm down' today after the disappointment of hearing World heritage organization UNESCO has confirmed that the city's heritage will soon be removed from the history books. All this is as a result of the city council's decision to develop the waterfront rather than simply letting it go to rack and ruin and turn into a Merseyside version of Angkor Wat.

Liverpudlians have long banged on about things that happened ages ago or people who died before most of Grace Under Pressure's readers were born. Now all traces of historical heritage are going to be removed. What this means in practice is that all references to The Beatles, Cilla Black, the Champions League final of 2005, the Diddy men, Skiffle bands, the Albert Dock, Brookside, Stan Boardman, the Ferry cross the Mersey, the Liver Birds (statues and TV series), the Toxteth riots, the Grand National, John Conteh and Alan Bleasdale will be taken away.

Local resident, Kurgan Jlopp, revealed, "Cairo can talk about the pyramids, Agra has its Taj Mahal, but now according to UNESCO we can't even talk about the Superlambanana, The Coral or even them statutes up on Formby beach. Wat's all dat' about like? It does me 'ead in just tinkin bout it. Now did I ever tell you about the night I went out with Stevie Gerrarrrrrrrrrrrrrrd and Nerys Hughes for some chikkkkkkkkkkkken and chips? " 


 

 

 

 




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