Liverpool - the Baltic Triangle
Baltic Triangle is a creative development area, near Liverpool city centre, with a number of digital, food and drink and pop culture businesses, street art, and popular hipster venues. The idea started a few years ago as Independent Liverpool, a blog for a bit of fun to promote local ventures. From
there, a membership card came with local currency, occasional food and drink festival, and it eventually turned the empty and derelict sites of the Baltic triangle into one of Liverpool’s most visited places.
Baltic Creative on 49 Jamaica Street, established in 2009, is the epicentre for supporting the area to thrive (upper left). Very Local Radio Station (upper right).
The name Baltic Triangle most probably comes from Liverpool links as a port to the Baltic countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Poland where from timber was exported and stored here in the vast warehouses, of which remains are now converted into flats. (There is a Scandinavian church while approaching the area along Park Lane.)
Baltic Triangle is far from being polished, it’s raw, organic and excitingly chaotic. There is lax fun in the air, plenty of choices for alternative dining and partying late in the night with garage raves and a diverse range of music.
One of the symbolic places is the ever-changing pedestal holding different creatures as time passes, be it a small mouse or a Viking-style warrior, a rabbit or a bored and f'cked Minion (this actually is in the venue nearby), just waiting for a newcomer.
Camp and Furnace at 67 Greenland Street, (L1 0BY) became an institution on its own. Inside open log fires, vintage caravans, bare bulbs, lobsters to eat and simple street food. Indoors like outdoors. Ranked second in The Times’ 20 Coolest Restaurants in Britain. Weekly Food Slams (cocktails, street food and brassy live music) Camp & Furnace is one of Liverpool's must-visit spaces.
Apocalypse Cow entrance (upper right)
Tank Room (lower left)
Love Lane Brewery (lower right)
Former Cains Brewery is an iconic building serving like a beehive for the independent food and drink industry, shopping, art gallery, and operating under the name Cains Brewery Village. There is a plethora of activity in and around, with a traditional English pub, adopted spaces to meet, greet and be relaxed.
First independent Liverpool food market, called Baltic Market opened in 2017, four days a week, free to enter. There is up to 10 food traders each week that change on a monthly basis, cocktail bar, loads of local beers, live music, DJs and dance.
This mixture of established independent Liverpool businesses, street food vendors, is also a food incubator for newly qualified chefs from local colleges and budding restauranteurs who want to trial their idea before they make the big move of getting their own premises.
Cains also houses a massive vintage market called Red Brick Vintage (Stanhope Street, L8 5XJ) where you could spend hours. It isn't a typical shopping experience. plenty of traders, and amazed customers.
There are snazzy, jazzy and zazzy hangouts, made fro by-gone garden sheds, a multitude of recycled material, an array of music venues, event spaces and late-night garage raves which attract hundreds of people during weekends.
Of course, the area is decorated with graffiti, the most trending selfie spot being the Liver Bird wings (upper right). There are new developments coming and people who put life back to the area are worried that this will soon change as big bucks will enter and devour the independent and creative spirit.
In the Kitchen Street (24 Kitchen Street - adj Bridgewater Street, L1 0AN) there is one of Liverpool's most cutting edge venues with mega-inventive club nights. The team have hosted highlights at Threshold Festival, Baltic Block Party, Liverpool Music Week and the launch of the GIT Award 2015.
Variety of more or less adorable street art adorn more and more building, the place is changing constantly. Entrance to Ghetto Golf (upper left), Jamaica Street mural (?) which is the main artery through the area, corner of Kitchen street mural (lower left), entrance to Baltic Triangle (lower right).
There are some pieces of graffiti tributes, like the Beatles mural (upper left), (why Ringo look so miserable?), Abbey Road Mural (upper right) on Grafton Street, famous British theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, and Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool FC manager.
Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Music Week and Liverpool Psych Fest have all hosted their events here. During World Cup 2018 there was a footie shirts exhibition (upper left).
Baltic Creative on 49 Jamaica Street, established in 2009, is the epicentre for supporting the area to thrive (upper left). Very Local Radio Station (upper right).
The name Baltic Triangle most probably comes from Liverpool links as a port to the Baltic countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Poland where from timber was exported and stored here in the vast warehouses, of which remains are now converted into flats. (There is a Scandinavian church while approaching the area along Park Lane.)
Baltic Triangle is far from being polished, it’s raw, organic and excitingly chaotic. There is lax fun in the air, plenty of choices for alternative dining and partying late in the night with garage raves and a diverse range of music.
One of the symbolic places is the ever-changing pedestal holding different creatures as time passes, be it a small mouse or a Viking-style warrior, a rabbit or a bored and f'cked Minion (this actually is in the venue nearby), just waiting for a newcomer.
Camp and Furnace at 67 Greenland Street, (L1 0BY) became an institution on its own. Inside open log fires, vintage caravans, bare bulbs, lobsters to eat and simple street food. Indoors like outdoors. Ranked second in The Times’ 20 Coolest Restaurants in Britain. Weekly Food Slams (cocktails, street food and brassy live music) Camp & Furnace is one of Liverpool's must-visit spaces.
Apocalypse Cow entrance (upper right)
Tank Room (lower left)
Love Lane Brewery (lower right)
Former Cains Brewery is an iconic building serving like a beehive for the independent food and drink industry, shopping, art gallery, and operating under the name Cains Brewery Village. There is a plethora of activity in and around, with a traditional English pub, adopted spaces to meet, greet and be relaxed.
First independent Liverpool food market, called Baltic Market opened in 2017, four days a week, free to enter. There is up to 10 food traders each week that change on a monthly basis, cocktail bar, loads of local beers, live music, DJs and dance.
This mixture of established independent Liverpool businesses, street food vendors, is also a food incubator for newly qualified chefs from local colleges and budding restauranteurs who want to trial their idea before they make the big move of getting their own premises.
There are snazzy, jazzy and zazzy hangouts, made fro by-gone garden sheds, a multitude of recycled material, an array of music venues, event spaces and late-night garage raves which attract hundreds of people during weekends.
Of course, the area is decorated with graffiti, the most trending selfie spot being the Liver Bird wings (upper right). There are new developments coming and people who put life back to the area are worried that this will soon change as big bucks will enter and devour the independent and creative spirit.
In the Kitchen Street (24 Kitchen Street - adj Bridgewater Street, L1 0AN) there is one of Liverpool's most cutting edge venues with mega-inventive club nights. The team have hosted highlights at Threshold Festival, Baltic Block Party, Liverpool Music Week and the launch of the GIT Award 2015.
Variety of more or less adorable street art adorn more and more building, the place is changing constantly. Entrance to Ghetto Golf (upper left), Jamaica Street mural (?) which is the main artery through the area, corner of Kitchen street mural (lower left), entrance to Baltic Triangle (lower right).
There are some pieces of graffiti tributes, like the Beatles mural (upper left), (why Ringo look so miserable?), Abbey Road Mural (upper right) on Grafton Street, famous British theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, and Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool FC manager.
Funky coloured containers for hiding people inside, a golden litter bin and a run-down caravan will get a hippie makeover next time you visit - this is all unique to Baltic Triangle.
Baltic Triangle bursts with creativity and it is like being in a street gallery with a twist, all the time. This leaves you in a reflective mode, all those socially aware messages gazing at from normally boring walls, you are surrounded by surreal visions and marvel at this place and thank it exists.
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Sources:
https://baltictriangle.co.uk/
https://www.visitliverpool.com/explore-the-city/neighbourhoods/baltic-triangle
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/guide-liverpools-baltic-triangle-whats-10029064