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Centre of the Universe Print

Satin finish, 170gsm weight, 600mm x 800mm, can be flattened and framed.

Tiger Woods at Hoylake, soccer star Steven Gerrard at Huyton. Stations linked by poets and architects, a line of Everton connections... Centre of the Universe, inspired by the words of poet Allen Ginsberg, is an artistic take on the familiar Merseyrail map, given a makeover with all the names of people who have made Liverpool (and the region) famous.

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GEORGE HARRISON spent his early years at Mackets Lane, near Hunts Cross
Clinton Ford is a Liverpool crooner - Ford belongs at Halewood...
Lita Roza continues a sequence of singers at Hough Green
Sue Johnston hails from Warrington, as do author Pete McCarthy
and actor Pete Postlethwaite

The choice of names is intuitive rather than logical.
There are three poets in a row, led by Roger McGough; three architects led by Giles Gilbert Scott.
But some names can only belong in one place: George Orwell is at Wigan where he was inspired to write The Road to Wigan Pier, and George Formby is also there, as it was his birthplace

Centre of the Universe... an explanation