Ken Dodd Happiness Centre primed to progress

Happiness!

Please scrap the toilet brush from this scheme, so naff!

How tickled I am.

Sorry but, whilst I support the use, this looks absolutely awful. How can they do this opposite a GI listed building?

Tackiness Tackiness …..

By jove, missus!

@Heritage Action…Perhaps, because Liverpool is a living, organic city not a museum frozen in time?

Looks great stop whinging
Spread happiness

It would seem AHMM have cracked how to get stuff past LCC Planning – if you call it the Ken Dodd Happiness Skyscraper, Student Halls or Waste Incinerator, it will sail through even if it is goppingly ugly, in a very sensitive heritage location/gateway site, and has a giant toilet brush outside, the kind of joke which explains why you never hear of an architect going into stand-up comedy.
Everyone at the Cunard will be too worried about being called miserable and anti-happiness by three people on social media, which will then be cut and pasted into the Echo several days later, leading to the Lib Dems demanding an urgent meeting.

Are we paying for this or Ken Dodds estate?

oh no this is so poor , as previous 12.53 why does our city cling to this type of thing . I suspect the vast majority of the current Liverpool population have little knowledge of Ken Dodd , no doubt he was a talent in his time but that was a long time ago . Focus on the future . Ps that Loo brush must be a wind up surely they cannot be serious

Great idea – I’m full of plumptiousness at the thought. Sir Ken is a prime example of what comedy used to mean – he was FUNNY without being cynical, political or foul-mouthed. Hopefully the exhibition will inspire people to appreciate the original meaning of comedy.

Very parochial

Lets just do nothing and whinge

This will be a good addition, however the tickling stick will need regular maintenance as I image seagulls and other birds will perch on it and in high winds other debris will attach to it.
Ken Dodd was a national legend and this centre will attract plenty of visitors.

No wonder we lost our WH status with stuff like this

Is he (and his tickle stick) of such cultural significance/relevance that he needs a museum and a permanent exhibition and sculpture over the road from his statue in Lime St as well as a garden named after him at Shakespeare North in Prescot?

Is this an ‘up yours’ to UNESCO?

this is very laughable… and not in the sense I think they are going for… so parochial. (April 1st was weeks ago)

I wonder what this building will be converted into when it fails to attract visitors?
Also how bad is the giant bog brush going to look after a few months of pigeons and wind blown rubbish.

Broadly – and to quote the great man – I am discomeknockerated. But that looks more like a barrel cleaner for a 12-bore than a tickling stick.

I am looking forward to Ticklemas

This is an April Fools right?

Lady Anne blowing all the cash Doddy hid under his bed on this crap. The statue in Lime St gets enough bemused looks from foreign tourists without a whole building of the same.

LCC should commission a renowned developer to build the “Happiness centre” to honour the legendary Ken Dodd before manchester builds the ‘happiness museum’

Blackpool would be a much better fit for something like this over Liverpool. He regularly performed there and campaigned on local issues, so a link exists.

People moan about new buildings not having enough character here, quirky designs like this and the maritime dock proposal come along and everyone still moans! All for these type of proposals let’s celebrate the cities identity

Will anybody remember Ken Dodd in 5 years?

Love Ken’s humour, but that toilet brush looks utterly awful. What an eyesore.

Although Sir Ken Dodd was a great icon and loyal to the North, unlike so many successful Northerners, waxing lyrical about not being able to get Chips and Gravy in Highgate, this is not the right tribute to him for Liverpool. This would work better in Blackpool.

That building is ugly; as is “The Toilet Brush”. Do the folk awarding these schemes not have other “friends” who can create beauty? Why brown container boxes attached to the front of that brick warehouse?

I suppose it does mean that if/when it turns out in a few years that there isn’t actually a demand for an entire Ken Dodd-related attraction, the Royal Court will have an entire nearly-new wing paid for by someone else, that they can turn into more bars. Hopefully they could fit a couple of parking spaces underneath, so whoever parks their their matching black Jeeps right across the pavement outside most evenings has somewhere less antisocial to put them.

They need to position it near the Tax office in memory of Ken…

Whacky!

So pleased that a final permanent place to visit which is dedicated to our beloved Doddy ❤️ who did so much work for Liverpool charities and beyond and never wanted the publicity for doing so. The tickling stick is a bit of fun, which I feel sure Sir Ken would have approved of.

Looking forward, at the appropriate time of course, to the Stan Boardman Centre housed in a bombed out chippy

Ken Dodd is one of Liverpool’s most famous cultural exports and known right around the world. It’s only right that he’s given the recognition he’s due in his home city.

Sir Ken was for his whole life a proud Liverpudlian and remained living in Knott Ash all his life
His Good Turns Society held events that raised money for many Liverpool Show Business and other Liverpool people who found themselves suffering from ‘hard times’ money wise.
He never sought any credit for his Charity Work and financial help and indeed joked about his perceived reputation as a mean person. I was and am proud that my designed GTS Logo became a part of Sir Kens Society fund raising Lunches for so many years plus a part of his attire as official events. GTS and crossed Tickle Sticks tie I designed will always be one of my proudest parts of my life, worn by this Greatest Liverpudlian.
Tony O’Leary

This is the latest offering of Public Art by Liverpool City Council’s Planner’s and Councillors. “Tickle Stick”, another turd in the Plaza, and blot on the cultural landscape. Already renamed “Bog Brush” by like-minded Liverpudlians, those irksome folk who can think and judge for themselves without the need for cultural and planning committees to do that for them. Shortly to be erected, in jest I’m sure, outside The Royal Court and which will be the first thing visitors to this city set their eyes upon when exiting Lime St Station. It will stand immediately opposite Harvey Lonsdale Elmes’ masterpiece, the Grade I listed St George’s Hall, arguably the finest example of neoclassical architecture in the World. (And this City Council are still scratching their heads as to why it lost UNESCO Heritage Status? Well actually that was the plan so they could build more low art rubbish like this).