St Luke’s Bombed Out Church
Roofless, fire-gutted Georgian church kept as a war memorial and open-air arts venue.
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This audio guide to St Luke's Bombed Out Church in Liverpool follows the people who have kept a roofless ruin alive, centred on Ambrose Reynolds and the arts group Urban Strawberry Lunch. It reaches back to a May night in nineteen forty-one, when an incendiary bomb struck a city already burning. Best heard standing in the middle of the open nave.
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