Having spent months campaigning for this church to be saved, we can now reveal that the good news - The church has been saved!

Months of legal issues, rubbish spouted about the unsafe spire, the vicar campaigning for the church to be demolished as per the Public Meeting and then finally a demolition order, has probably cost thousands in legal fees, which could have all been avoided from day one.....

However, while we can finally walk past the building, knowing it will be there for another 150 years, we would like to put the record straight as to why this website was set up, and what we wanted to achieve.

The campaign to save the church was years in the making. Numerous people we spoke to said that 'it had been on the cards for years and was a shame nothing could be done' - but I had not known about the situation until it appeared in the Liverpool Echo only a few months earlier.

Visiting the church for the first time, I found a beautiful building but also a very safe looking building, and wondered why the reports of a church which was nearly falling down wasn't true.

My only reasons for setting up this website, was to a, highlight the general plight of the church in general - Liverpool has lost many churches for the wrong reasons. b, to find out why this building was given a 'dangerous building' stamp - when in reality, we found out it was far from that. It was not to try and save a church that was literally falling down and one that would have taken considerable time and money, nor was it a building that didn't feature on the skyline - we all know of the beauty of the spire whether looking at it on Edge Lane (spending millions on new kerbs and trees and then demolishing a fantastic spire would have been more than a joke) or looking over Wavertree Park to see the spire in the distance.

It was my intention to find out why this building was empty, who could we campaign to save it, and take reports from external bodies to see what exactly was wrong with the building.

Now that the campaign was successful, from letters to and from the local newspaper, we have been told that 'our campaign' has all been for nothing and we didn't do a jot to help out. I believe that over 6000 visits to the website cannot be wrong, from flyering the local neighbourhood, to spending time and money in commissioning reports on the building to find the true extent of the stability, this website was set up for one reason, to highlight and show that the spire wasn't falling down, wasn't in a dangerous condition and certainly wasn't throwing stones on to the road, some 15ft away from the spire! (Does Fairfield have a different gravitation pull from the rest of us?!) We simply promoted that the extent of the damage of the spire wasn't as extensive as reported, and that was our campaign.

We also believe that the church was redundant and knew that 'lofty ideas' would need more than just words - but with the sterling work of Jonathan Brown, William Palin, and local people (thanks Sue!), we showed that far from being told that "The so-called "campaign" to save the spire of St John's actually changed nothing and did nothing" - we, the public, pulled together and made the powers that be take note that they cannot just pull buildings down - we believe that this website made the story aware to everyone and presented the facts and we also believe that having had to endure a public meeting, spending our time and money, we have presented the 'people of Liverpool' with a fine building to enjoy for years to come. Should the powers that be have been strapped for cash, there was nothing to stop them selling St John's Vicarage, after all, what is the point of a Vicarage without a church.

NOTE - However, it is still puzzling that while one of the campaigners to have this church pulled down 'for the safety of the public' is still allowing children to play in their abandoned and much more unsafe church on Monfa Road, Bootle. How very strange that St John's Fairfield was a danger to the public yet Children are reguarly seen in this other church!