Plans are in for a low-carbon district heat network at Peel L&P's Wirral Waters. £130m Millers Quay will become home to experiments in plastic reduction.
WITHIN the cluster of historic cottages nestled around a cobbled courtyard in Thornton is a former watchmaker’s workshop. Local history records reveal that the workshop was in operation in 1916. Now its legacy lives on in a bar which operates from the same property - called The Watchmaker, in a nod to its past. The Watchmaker - the Telegraph & Argus Pub of the Week - can be found within the Grade II listed South Square conservation area of Thornton. The properties, built in 1832 as 12 workers’ cottages, were saved from demolition in the 1980s and the complex, one of the region’s last surviving examples of a U-shaped building with courtyard, now includes South Square arts and heritage centre, with galleries, community spaces and artists studios, and its vegetarian cafe, Plenty at the Square. The arts centre re-opens tomorrow.