Braygreen

Founded in 2000, Braygreen is a portfolio of our four main products. Historical content websites featuring well known buildings and districts in Liverpool. Campaign management of social media groups focusing on abandoned and listed buildings within the North-West. Written books on local Liverpool content (2 books published, two in progress) and our newly formed Liverpool Tours YouTube channel.

We have been featured on BBC North West for our campaign on the Grade 2 listed Sandfield Tower, spoken on Radio Merseyside for our campaign on the historical Grade 1 listed Woolton Hall, and been featured in the local newspaper to highlight abandoned listed buildings within Liverpool.

Recently, Sandfield Tower has been listed, via our 25 year campaign, as one of the top ten buildings at risk by the Victorian Society for 2025!

Braygreen runs nine websites of a historical interest and we run three Facebook groups, totalling over 25,000 members.

Our website portfolio can be listed in the following overview:

Sandfield Tower – The twenty-five year campaign to highlight and save a grade 2 listed building from collapse in West Derby.

The History of Childwall – Focusing on the historical district of Childwall including its lost buildings and part 14th century Church.

Eddesbury – The Grade 2 listed building, designed by noted architect James Francis Doyle has been heavily fire damaged and we have researched the history and brought to light this building’s rich history.

India Building – Providing a detailed write up of the Herbert J Rowse designed building, built between 1924 and 1932 for the Blue Funnel Line. It is has an interesting past and now a bright future with new owners.

St Luke’s Bombed Out Church – The complete history of St Luke’s Church from the opening of the Church, throughout the Liverpool Blitz and how this building still stands as Liverpool’s war memorial.

Stop the Rot – A newly formed website to highlight our abandoned and listed buildings that are slowly rotting away in Liverpool due to managed decline of the buildings. Including our Grade 1 listed Woolton Hall.

Pearsons of Liverpool – A fantastic insight in to the ‘secret’ World War 2 factory in Edge Hill showing classified images of over 200 locations in a very rare hardback publication.

St John the Divine – Highlight the plight of the endangered building and the proposed demolition and the fight to save this Church, a noted landmark on Liverpool’s horizon.

St Peter's R.C Church

St Luke's Church

All Saints Childwall

St Peter's R.C Church

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Woolton Hall - Highlighting the Grade 1 listed, yet abandoned, three hundred year old building in Liverpool. Noted as one of Robert Adam's finest work in the north of England.

Contact us on the details below via e-mail or telephone to see how we can assist you with a campaign you wish to run, or for any further press releases on the above websites or Facebook groups. Jonathon Wild, Proprietor, BRAYGREEN

We can be contacted by the following details: (M) 07817 106128 - (E) braygreenportfolio@outlook.com - (W) www.braygreen.co.uk

My name is Jonathon Wild, Proprietor of Braygreen. I am also a Local Historian and as you will have seen from my extensive portfolio, I have designed, written and I run ten websites in total. Five websites are of a historical subject, and five are hard fought campaigns on Liverpool’s historic and listed, yet abandoned buildings.

I have been a Historian for twenty-five years and in that time, I have helped to save two buildings from demolition with strong campaigning, and careful historical research to bring these two buildings back to life. St John the Divine’s Church in Fairfield, and Eddesbury in West Derby (Grade 2 listed).

I regularly liaise with Historic England and Save Britain’s Heritage, and they know of my campaigns for local buildings in Liverpool. I have been featured on TV (BBC Northwest), I have spoken on Radio (Radio Merseyside) and featured in many articles in the Liverpool Echo on my historical buildings. I am no stranger to the media. It would be a good opportunity to put some background to my portfolio and provide some of my career highlights as I’ve had one or two interesting careers in my time.

SONY/PLAYSTATION - Between 1994 and 2007, I worked for Sony PlayStation as a Games Tester/Development Assistant. I was fortunate to start my career pre-Sony with the Games Development company Psygnosis who operated out of Sefton Street in Liverpool.

During my tenure with Psygnosis, I was fortunate to see the last of the SNES/Mega Drive/Mega CD hardware platforms and was responsible for testing on some of the last games created for the Mega CD and of course, while the Amiga and PC were going strong, testing on these systems also.

I saw the birth of the PlayStation 1 when Psygnosis was bought from Sony and when we moved to a new building in Wavertree, I was responsible for lead testing on some (now) historical titles. Destruction Derby is probably the most widely known early PlayStation title. I headed up the testing of the PlayStation version, the PC version and finally the Sega Saturn conversion.

Memorable titles within the early Sony days allowed me to add my name to hundreds of PlayStation credits including ‘The Getaway, ICO, Destruction Derby, WipEout 2907, Gran Turismo 3’ and a whole host of other fantastic titles. In the latter part of my career, I was the Development Assistant and lead tester for the official Formula 1 Titles at Sony working on the PlayStation 2 title ‘F1 05’, the PSP version and finally the PlayStation 3 title of F1 06 seeing the birth of the PlayStation 3. I also had the pleasure of meeting Murray Walker!

With the closure of the studio and redundancy in 2007, I completed a very successful 13 years with Psygnosis/Sony and should I ever return to Games Development in the future, I can say that I witnessed the birth of the PlayStation thirty years ago!