THING OF THE WEEK

RADIO GA-GONE… This week, Bauer Media announced it would broadcast its final radio show from Liverpool’s St John’s Beacon on Christmas Eve before packing up and sliding down the massive fireman’s pole to the exit for the last time.

So, what next the grade two-listed landmark? St John’s Beacon forms part of Liverpool’s instantly recognisable skyline and presents an intriguing proposition. Completed in the late 1960s and last refurbished at the turn of the century, it would likely require significant work whatever its future use. Who knows, transformation into what would be enviable workspace could see the city finally satisfy the long-standing Rathbones office requirement.

Pam Mills, who helped restore the Fish House. Credit: via Lake District National Park

FISHY… From tall buildings to small ones. A centuries-old fish house in the Lake District has been restored thanks to £7,000 of grant funding from the government. Located in Black Beck Wood, Rusland, the building very recently could have reasonably been considered a ruin. Having been repointed, reroofed, and now boasting a door, the building – thought to be the only surviving fish house in South Lakeland – has been completely transformed and could net upwards of 3,000 pcm as a flat in London.

Credit: via Stockport County

MERSEY MATES… Andy Burnham travelled to Stockport this week to congratulate the town’s Mayoral Development Corporation on five years of regeneration. Addressing the room, he pulled out his favourite piece of football trivia – that Stockport County’s Edgeley Park stadium is the closest ground to the River Mersey in the country. Despite being in Merseyside, Everton’s Goodison Park, Liverpool’s Anfield, and Tranmere’s Prenton Park are all further away from the river than the Hatters’ home – at least for now.

“You’ve literally got 10 months left of that, because another club is building one even closer,” said Everton fan Burnham about his club’s new stadium at Bramley Moore Dock. “It is actually going to open, and we will still be in the Premier League. So enjoy your status as the best football trivia question in the country for a little while longer.”

KLOPP HOUSE…The £4m home of former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp’s has been put up for sale. Having swapped Merseyside for Mallorca and high-caffeine drinks, Klopp has no use for the pad, which now sits empty on Victoria Road in Formby. The mansion, owned by Klopp’s previous employer, has for years offered international footballers and their entourages six bedrooms and five reception rooms, as well as a sunken jacuzzi to soothe aching bodies, a heated 20m indoor pool, and, some would argue, an ambitiously-sized trophy room.

Berkeley Shaw has been appointed to find a buyer for the property. A fly-through video published by the agency gives an insight into Klopp’s love of crushed velvet and chandeliers.