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£2m Viking centre bid launched

9:29am Tuesday 6th March 2007

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THE preservation of Wirral's Viking Heritage begins later this week with the launch of a £2million three-year project.

Friday morning's event follows the publication of a report detailing the borough's links with the Norse invaders. It also made five key recommendations so that local history can be fully developed for tourist and educational purposes.

Following a successful bid for development funding from the Mersey Waterfront and English Heritage. It was submitted by Friends of Hoylake and Meols Gardens and Open Spaces' steering group The Heritage Project, set up to oversee the study. Chairman, Wirral West MP Stephen Hesford hopes the launch will help put the borough's Norse links firmly on the map.

"I want to thank all those who have enabled us to put together this wonderful snap-shot of Wirral's fantastic cultural heritage," Mr Hesford said. "And whilst it is early days, I believe that what we have had the privilege of starting will grow into a nationally and internationally acknowledged attraction.

"What we have to do now is find partners to help us grow this development both in terms of funding and delivery."

Among the reports' recommendation are that a Heritage Centre is built in Meols with an iconic Viking sculpture erected on site. The second is for a Wirral Heritage Trail and Norse heritage centre at Wirral Country Park in Thurstaston.

The scheme will be launched at Melrose Hall in Melrose Avenue on Friday morning. If the project goes to plan it would take two or three years and could link in with other developments, such as the 2008 Liverpool Capital of Culture.

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Your Say YourWirral Globe

Ragnar, says...
3:14pm Tue 6 Mar 07

Remember in the 80s, when the Globe was full of the "Wirral Vikings", "Reclaiming of Thors stone" etc, when my own local Viking group (Hearth of the sons of Odinn and Order of the Hammer) tried to raise interest in EXACTLY the same thing?
What did the Globe do then????
Aye, you guessed it we were, in as many words told we were idiots, fools, etc.
DO NOT SAY YOU WERE NOT CAPABLE OF DOING THIS 20 YEARS AGO.
But THEN you would not suport our evidence that the Wirral was probably one of the most important Viking centers of Britain, that we had spent 5 years researching.
I can NOT resist a temtation to say "UP YOURS".

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Ragnar, says...
3:16pm Tue 6 Mar 07

Oh, and bye the way. I still have all the documentation, but Edinburgh Uni, and Berlin Uni now have it
LOOK FOR IT.

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murph, wallasey says...
3:46pm Tue 6 Mar 07

i think it was stupid for the geez above to be called stupid etc if he's got hard evidence on a subject, but its about time viking history got rcognised by the wirral, because if what ive read is correct they did settle and used half of the penisula when they where here

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Dante, West Kirby says...
7:59pm Tue 6 Mar 07

Ragnar-How is it Edinburgh Uni, and Berlin Uni have the documentation, when you still have it? I'm just relieved Berlin didn't have it in the 1940's, otherwise Herr Hitler could have used the info for Operation Sealion."Ve vil invade England,like da Veekings,through da suft underbelly oft der Virral.

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A Hilter, in a bunker says...
11:35pm Tue 6 Mar 07

Drat! I vish I had thought of dat at zee time...

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Jo Goebbels, says...
11:44pm Tue 6 Mar 07

Do not vorry mein Furher. Zis Ragnar has crucial information vich must be retrieved at all costs...I haff sent ze guards to arrest him. He vill be made to talk, zen ve shall rise up unt take over ze vorld! Ein Reich etc etc etc

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Ragnar, says...
4:18am Wed 7 Mar 07

Dante, West Kirby on 7:59pm Tue 6 Mar 07
Ragnar-How is it Edinburgh Uni, and Berlin Uni have the documentation, when you still have it?

They have exclusive use.
The Wirral can shove it. In fact I am going to withdraw them today. Just to make sure they do not help the Wirral.

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Mr Bollo, in a bunker says...
11:04am Wed 7 Mar 07

Rangar,

What a bitter, twisted, nasty little man you are...

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Ragnar, says...
12:07pm Wed 7 Mar 07

We lost a LOT of time and money on the project.

THATS why.

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Dante, West Kirby says...
3:46pm Wed 7 Mar 07

Ragnar-You're too late!On Monday morning, Capt.Stammering of the Wirral Home Guard, anticipating your cunning move, sent some of his best troops to retrieve the Viking Documents from Berlin and Edinburgh, plus any hats with spikes on them. So Ragnar,it is in fact, 'UP YOURS'

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Pandora, Engvej says...
5:12pm Fri 9 Mar 07

I think this dialogue is hilarious, I'm crying with laughter, keep it going fellas.

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Ragnar, Brandenburg-Preußen. says...
12:11pm Sat 10 Mar 07

Yes. It does seem to display the average intelligence of the Wirral resident admirably.

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Dante, West Kirby says...
2:36pm Sat 10 Mar 07

Ragwort-I stand rebuked.How could anyone come close to the intelligence of someone like youself,the Cultural Attache for Wirral in Berlin Edinburgh and Brandenburgh,plus the founder member of the'Hearth of the sons of Oddbins',plus, not to mention'Order of the Hammer'.Oops I have done.

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Mr Bollo, says...
8:22pm Sat 10 Mar 07

Rangar clearly has delusions of grandeur and considers himself some kind of intellectual, however if you read his many dreary posts that have spread throughout this website like a virulent cancer, it is clear that he is nothing more a small minded bigot who, in spite of his two degrees and glittering police career, lacks either the wit or mental capacity to back up his opinions…and given the fact that he doesn’t even live here, he must lead a very dull life to spend so much time pontificating about our local issues.

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vince noir, says...
2:39pm Wed 14 Mar 07

I see the PC police are VERY vigilant today!

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Njal, Wirral says...
2:36pm Thu 15 Mar 07

Hail Ragnar! Hail Ragnar's beard!

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Ragnar, Brandenburg-Preußen. says...
2:48pm Sun 1 Apr 07

Intersesting that the plagiarists have not seen fit to respond.

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