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Date Posted: 07:45:25 02/15/03 Sat
Author: Lynne
Author Host/IP: 213.48.246.19
Subject: Speke Now

As you often put your link in my Guestbook, Tom (http:www.moneypennyl.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm) I thought it was time I came to see your site for the second time. I am surprised you have continued to build it because your initial comments to me about Speke where so awful, and I was so hurt, I have never replied to you since, despite your numerous messages. In contrast, I hope you will consider my message polite and respectful.

Your opinion of the area in your email to me last year was insulting to those of us who stayed here, and who continue to work on improving it. The houses that are boarded up in Speke Garston are renovated before they are boarded up and are ready for occupation when a tenant requests one. The housing company that now owns the stock and has local residents on it's Board, has implemented an excellent home improvement plan which so far has given me double glazing, central heating, cavity wall insulation, a new roof, loft insulation and all my repairs completed in one day. In the next month my kitchen and bathroom will be gutted and renewed with my choice of units, and the electrics will be completely renewed. The cost to me? £2.00 a week on my £50 rent! South Liverpool Housing doesn't just work on it's stock, but is involved in many local projects and offers grants to those wanting to better themselves or their business in Speke Garston, including sponsorship for one young lad who wanted to work towards the next Olympics.

A new superstore is being built in the centre of Speke, with smaller shops moving in from the old Parade, which will become the sports fields for the new Parklands High school, (replacing Speke Comp which was falling down). It has just opened beside the new library, new Leeson Centre, new LCC One Stop Shop, new Community Centre, refurbished Austin Rawlinson and sports centre, new theatre etc etc. The people of Speke have worked long and hard to get to this stage, and we are reaping the benefits of those efforts.

I also remember your insults about my beloved All Saints Church, which were insensitive to say the least considering my 42 year commitment to the place, and the fact that I am the Churchwarden! Small though we are, we also play a big part in our local community, funding a Community Development Worker to help make things better. What’s a bit of graffiti compared to getting a new primary school, health centre and shops built? That's what the people of West Speke are working on now. I am sorry that you felt too ashamed of the Church to show it to your family, but maybe if you had come while a service was on and met us, your opinion would have changed. A church is not a building; rather the people who use it.

As someone who lives so far away, visits only occasionally, and doesn't even like the place, I am surprised that you have an interest in Speke and wonder why you have continued with this site. Having read your replies to Peter Crompton and Lisa, I see your opinion hasn't changed. To quote one sentence of your email to me: ‘Speke is a terrible place to live and it lives up to its reputation.‘ your site has some very good contents and is very professionally run but is spoiled by these negative comments.

I am not asking you to cover up the bad points but to acknowledge the good ones. Maybe the reason so many houses are boarded up in Speke is because people moved away and didn't stay to make it better, as we are doing now. It is everybody’s right to choose to move away of course, but they then lost the right to criticize.

We all know the bad points! But it’s not bad coverage that gets things improved as you said to Lisa; it’s people living and working together with faith in themselves, a hope for the future, and a resolve never to give up!

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[> Re: Speke Now -- Admin Earl Group, 13:35:23 02/15/03 Sat (213.122.86.39)

Lynne we noticed that the URL Link you have included in your post is entered incorrectly and will not activate in hypertext form unless corrected.....would you like a link to your site on our webring....please feel free.

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[> [> Re: Speke Now -- Lynne, 09:15:07 02/16/03 Sun (213.48.242.225)

>Lynne we noticed that the URL Link you have included
>in your post is entered incorrectly and will not
>activate in hypertext form unless corrected.....would
>you like a link to your site on our webring....please
>feel free.

No, but thank you very much for asking. Most people find my site by just searching for All Saints Speke!

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[> Re: Speke Now -- Tom Ryder, 15:04:45 02/15/03 Sat (213.122.86.39)

Lynne you raise some good points and I agree with a lot of the comments that you have made. Some of them I also disagree with....I am not ashamed to show the Speke church to my family in any way, since some of them are interred there. Compared to the Speke that I grew up in, the present day Speke is a terrible place to live. My attack is made on all of those people who do not contribute to the community and cause the church to adopt cctv cameras and razor wire as protection against vandalism. As for the houses boarded up....I have yet to see a house that has been refurbished and the windows boarded while half the slates are missing from the roof. Refurbishment of any home would be defeated if the roof leaked. Possibly there are some homes protected in this manner which has the tendancy to enforce my argument. There should be no need to board up the windows of any home in a civilised society.
I care very much about Speke and that is why I spend many voluntary hours promoting Speke through the world wide web and this site,I have no need to, but it is because I care what happens to Speke, that I do so. How many other interactive Speke community sites do you see on the web apart from this one and your own? As you are aware it is very easy to eradicate a posting on your site if you don't like the content but I believe that we live in a democracy which affords us the freedom of speech and the right to criticize anything under the sun, one doesn't ever lose that right even when moving away from Speke. I have not presented any personal verbal attack on any individual and I will not do so on the internet but I do stand by my opinion of Speke and is my right to do so. Sometimes the truth does hurt.....c'est la vie.
Best wishes to you Lynne

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