ST JOHN’S Shopping Centre is stepping back 800 years to help Liverpool celebrate its birthday.
The centre is taking on a medieval flavour, complete with monks and serving wenches, as it travels back to 1207 – the year King John granted Liverpool its charter.
To celebrate the landmark eight centuries, 700,000 birthday scratch cards are being handed out to shoppers who could be in with a chance of winning a host of prizes.
These include 800 specially-minted commemorative coins.
Marketing manager Carol Cooper said: “We’ve teamed up with Liverpool airport for what we’ve called Ye Olde St John’s 800th Birthday promotion.
“We’ve got more than 2,500 prizes hidden in the scratchcards, including flights with flyglobespan and 12 pairs of return flights to Europe with Ryanair.”
Shoppers have to rub three “fleas” off a peasant’s back to see whether they have won one of the thousands of prizes.
A D&G watch from Milton’s, £150 vouchers from MKOne and Wilkinson, 50 goody bags from Woolworths, perfume from the Fragrance Shop, Claire’s and the Perfume Shop and a Thornton’s hamper are among the gifts.
Scratchcards will be handed out with every purchase people make in the city shopping centre.
The 800th Birthday promotion begins in true medieval style tomorrow and Sunday with medieval monk Brother Baloni, wenches, knights and jesters wandering around St John’s with free cards.
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