Culture

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] There is still almost another month in which to submit entries for the 2017  – and last ever – Martin Wills Writing Awards, which have a closing date of Tuesday 28th February. The Awards are for fine writing, either fact or fiction, on a horseracing

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Some years ago artist Julia Midgley came across the skeleton of the 1900 Grand National winner Ambush in the then Museum of Liverpool Life, Liverpool. She included a drawing of it in an etching she was working on at the time, called ‘Seen on Merseyside’.