THE SOUND AGENTS Liverpool Heritage Organisation: JUST GIVING CAMPAIGN REACHES 100%

Friday 20 September 2024

JUST GIVING CAMPAIGN REACHES 100%

Target reached! Good Team Work

Dr Wellington Koo at the opening of the Chinese Republican Progress Club

The Sound Agents are delighted to share with you that together we have raised £750 of the £750 target to place a blue plaque on 20 Nelson Street to celebrate Gladys Aylward attending the Liverpool Chinese Gospel Mission and the children/adults who took part in the 1958 film The Inn of Sixth Happiness, based on the story of Gladys Aylward 'The Small Woman'

A brass plate will detail the visit of Dr Wellington Koo, the Republic of China Ambassador to Great Britain at the time this photo was taken outside 20 Nelson Street on the 29th December 1941, at the opening of the Chinese Republican Progress Club in the building which was formally a Scandinavian Boarding House.

Dr Wellington Koo was in Liverpool to settle a bitter dispute between Chinese Merchant Seamen and the British shipping lines over low pay and disparity in wages during the war.

The Sound Agents promote public understanding and access to communities by recording the personal and everyday experience of Liverpool life.

The purpose of the organisation is to work inclusively with people from under-represented communities to provide opportunities to share stories using the Arts as a tool for communication.

Working outside the structure to bring together older people to pass their skills on to the younger generation by working creatively to share talents, experience and enthusiasm to bring people together to improve health and well-being and create opportunities for young people to get involved in Socially Engaged practice.