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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

‘Losing it would be sacrilege’: last-minute push to save ‘Ron’s Place’

Trustee Martin Wallace at Ron’s Place in Birkenhead, Wirral.
Trustee Martin Wallace at Ron’s Place in Birkenhead, Wirral. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Campaigners say the clock is ticking to prevent an extraordinary palace of outsider art created in a ground floor flat in Birkenhead from being lost forever.

“Ron’s Place” is a one-of-a-kind property that stops you in your tracks because its former tenant, the late Ron Gittins, spent three decades obsessively decorating it in a manner no one else would.

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