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Shops and Hobbies in Liverpool, Merseyside*

Liverpool, Merseyside Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• Erm....... correction! BLACKS in Hanover Street used to be a good outdoor shop, but all the decent staff have left and Millets kit now reigns supreme (I.E. crap!) Go to ADAPT OUTDOOR in richmond Street (between Willimason Square and Whitechapel) - used to be SOF, now sells top notch kit and has a rather good climbing department complete with bouldering wall to practice your moves on, gives discount on everything pretty much and does special orders and stuff. Blacks and Brighams have unfortunatly dissapeared up their own bottoms and have the rudest staff and overpriced gear.
• Grin for Nu-metal kids and Goth wannabees. Dodos - for cheap funky clothes.
• best t shirts, hellraiser in the palace
• take ur pik
• bulletproof, top of Hardman street, great selection of 70's clothes aswell as new stuff. The decor is as great as the clothes - you will want to take it with you!
• That place wich sells band t shirts is called dead goat
• Wade Smith is huge, but is full of scallies. Bold Street has a few designer shops. Quiggins is good for hippies n that.
• Liverpool Palace on Slater Street for small units, Quiggans Antique Centre for vintage stuff and band t-shirts etc, Wade Smith in the Cavern Quarter for top level designer, Bold Street has a couple of nice designer shops whilst Cavern Walks has great designer girls shops plus some dodgy Saturday night shiny stuf..
• 55 Bold ST is now called WRC part of a national chain and has some weird notions of customer service! no refunds for shoddy goods made in the far east!
• lost art sell some decent cloths and the shoes although you beter have a rich aunt and uncle that place is pricey!!!!
• Erm, that place in Quiggins wot sells band t-shirts.
• Rafaels. Super baggy skate jeans for a tenner, custom made for your size. Near the Chip Shop computer games shop.
• The Quiggins Centre on School Lane and the Liverpool Palace are crammed full of cool clothes shops. They're both a bit like Kensington Market if you're from London.
• New-ish Vintage shop "Bulletproof" on Hardman street. Nice stuff, both new and old. The vintage clothes are sold by weight, and nothing's over £15.
• Bit chainy, but 55 Bold Street is very cool (if expensive)
• Blacks Camping- The friendliest outdoor shop in liverpool in Hanover street- no pretentious mountaineers in here- and they actually know their stuff too!
• The usual stuff, DPs, Top Shop, River Island etc but try St. John's market if you're a bit skint
• Alternative Clothes store on Slater Street. Cheap authentic 501s & cheesy 70s shirts with one foot collars - Very Funky.
• Yeh: quite a few around. Quiggins on School Lane; Palace on Slater Street.

Arts, crafts and such (Anything from pukka art galleries to craft shops. Trendy and twee both welcome.)

• The art shop on Bold Street - Rennie's. It's great in there, student discount, staff are top.
• The museum and gallery by the Empire and the Tate gallery on the Albert Dock
• Its got to be the Bluecoat centre really,local artists and unique pieces, good for special occaisions.
• Blue coat chambers, the tate in the albert dock, walker art gallery, renees on bold street is the best shop in town.
• The best small gallery in town l.issue Gallery @ The Urban Coffee Lounge. 349 Smithdown road, also makes a mean smoothie or ...coffee.
• Blue coat chambers are quite cool
• FACT picture house, Wood Street off Berry Street. With video and multimedia. Open in 2003 and making an excellent effort thus far.
• The Bluecoat Art Gallery & Arts and Crafts Centre. the Tate Gallery when its not charging unemployed and students to get into special exhibitions. Walker Art Gallery.
• Love Bluecoat chambers. Always putting on cool exhibitions that no one else has heard of.
• quiggins obviously!
• deyeshigh skool best school for art
• Bluecoat chambers has some great modern art.
• THE INKLINGS, Merseyside's premier writers group. Meetings every Wednesday 1pm to 3pm, Central Library, William Brown Street (between Museum and Walker Art Gallery). Web site: http://www.mersinet.co.uk
• Quiggins for beads and stuff
• bluecoat chambers behind hmv
• utility up bold street sells really trendy stuuf for presents and home wise, its great to look at but a little on the expensive side
• We've got loads of these! The Tate at the Albert Dock has some leading artists exhibitions. I think theres a craft shop in Croxteth Park.
• Bluecoat Arts Centre on School Lane for a good cross section of modern arts and crafts, Open Eye on Wood Street for photography, The Walker for old school art and The Tate for nu, the Number 7 on Falkner Street also has a cafe in it and the Parking Space on Berry Street is a cool new gallery set in a former chippy.
• Tate modern if you like that stuff is at the albet dock
• By Lost Art in Quiggans.
• NATURES TREASURE has the best selection of silver jewellery in Liverpool and surrounding areas, I (gramps) should know I've been there!!!!
• For the finest selection of silver jewelery at reasonable prices you can't beat NATURES TREASURE just along from The Tate Gallery on the Albert Dock. They also stock a fine selection of gifts, pewterware, celtic jewellery, crystals and semi-precious stones, agates, amethysts, geodes, they have a great range. Call in ask for Sandra or Phil,tell them where you heard about them !!!!
• Egg Cafe - full of pretentious foreign students / crusties.
• Open Eye Gallery in Wood Street (above Beluga Bar), new home of the internationally recognised photographers gallery - and its free!!
• Grin in Quiggins (and lots of other shops in Quiggins, come to that)
• Trade Craft on Bold Street has a good selection of stuff, run by a Mother and Daughter.
• Acorn Gallery, off Renshaw Street - nice for a quiet cup of coffee and a browse at the artwork for sale/exhibition.
• The Tate. Wierd stuff, and conventional too sometimes.
• Bluecoat Chambers. Arty, crafty galleries.
• Liverpool Public Library. Also next door to the Museum. Yet again, big and beautiful
• Liverpool Art Gallery. Next door to the Museum. Also big, and very beautiful.
• Liverpool Museum. Big and Beautiful.

Magazine and Comic Shops

• worlds apart, on Lime Street.
• Worlds Apart on Lime Street. Very much like the one off the Simpsons. But run by Goths instead of comic book guy.
• Just the usual hight street ones, one of which is on Bold Street and the other on Lime Street.
• Don't know what it's called but it's right by Lost Art
• On Bold Street - Forbidden Planet
• Loads of others.
• Big one on Slater Street - don't know the name.
• Worlds Apart.
• Chapter One.

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