Bold Street
Sloping former ropewalk lined with independent cafés, bookshops and vintage stores.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bold Street in Liverpool turns on a July afternoon in nineteen ninety-six, when a man shopping with his wife crossed the street to meet her outside a bookshop. It follows the ghost writer Tom Slemen, a young woman with a Miss Selfridge bag, and a long-gone Liverpool van firm. Best heard on the pavement within sight of Waterstones.
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