Links

New Runcorn Widnes Bridge

The powers that be are pondering weather to build another bridge. Much of the traffic crossing the river at that point. heads our way. So we will be affected by whatever happens upriver.

English Nature

  government agency that champions the conservation of wildlife and geology throughout England

Lark Lane

An interesting local site

Sefton Park Palmhouse

The palmhouse restoration project

 

Friends of Williamsons Tunnels

The bizarre legacy of Joseph Williamson is probably Liverpool's best potential tourist asset. This group has 1300 members and a brilliant web site.

Friends of the Earth Links List

Over 500 green web sites

The Eden Project official site

 

Some Useful Local Hub Sites

Lancashire Links List     About 1000 links 

North Wales Index         About 3400 links

Warrington Links            About 95 sites

Halton Links                     About 75 sites

Yorkshire Net

 

Old Photo's of Liverpool

 The archive from the city library's collection

 

News and Information Sites

Liverpool Echo website

Media UK  Links to the web sites of almost all the newspapers,  magazines, radio and TV stations in the UK. 

The Paper Boy  Newspapers throughout the world. Many have local links lists which often succeed where search engines fail 

Indy Media   worldwide DIY news service. Tends to be left wing but often has info hard to find elsewhere

rense.com  Probably the best site on the internet for a broad portfolio of news and information that gets little or no coverage elsewhere. 

 

Transport

www.pti org.uk  virtually all air, sea, road and rail passenger services in UK

Merseytravel   local services

UK Motoring Directory   An incredibly comprehensive motoring site. From vintage car clubs to motor sport, car sales to fuel technology, plus everything in between

 

Local Culture and Events

 

Wirral International Guitar Festival    A week of guitar concerts covering all styles.  Jazz, Rock, Classical,  Folk.   9th--28th November  2004, at several venues in Birkenhead.

 

 

Some Money Saving Sites

The two sites below enable you to cross reference what different sellers charge for the some product. The price variations are massive. They are mostly mail order sellers, but even if you do not want to buy from them, you can still use the price info here as a price match bargaining weapon with other retailers.

Pricerunner.co.uk

Comparestoreprices.co.uk

 

They say we get ripped off in this country. If you want to compare our prices with what they pay in America, click  here. 

The American site is really for amusement only, but if you are tempted by anything they have, don't forget that as well as she shipping costs, you may have to pay American sales taxes, British customs duty;  you may get red tape with both of them; and on top of all that the American electrical supply voltage and AC frequency are different to ours.

 

f it is computer items you want, a specialist store just down the road in the Brunswick trading estate can probably match most  of the deals available elsewhere.        Computer Plus

 

Car values are available at these two sites

Glasses Guide     Car valuations are here are on a pay per view basis

 Parkers Guide     This site is free but  you have to put up with aggressive adverts firing at you.

The usual sales technique is to concentrate the punters mind on how much they are getting for their old car, and steer their minds away from the price they will be paying for their new car. You can easily lose a few "ŁK" if you do not check values diligently.