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Curtain falls on Wirral’s last Arts Council after 37 years
Jun 24 2009 by Lorna Hughes, Liverpool Daily Post
Wallasey Arts Council organised 10 events a year with grants from Merseyside Arts and later £2,000 from Wirral Council.
It is the only survivor from five Arts Councils set up in the borough in 1972 by Merseyside Arts Association – now part of Arts Council England – with the aim of advancing public education in the arts.
The others were in Hoylake, Heswall, Bebington and Birkenhead, the latter folding 10 years ago.
Mr Ormrod, a former employee of Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, said: “In its heyday, Merseyside Arts had an extraordinary panel of so-called experts who would look at the things we did and very often they would say they weren’t art. We had one or two disagreements but I suppose we had the last laugh!”
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