Ron’s Place: cash loan saves palace of outsider art at last minute

Benefactor’s offer allays fears sale of building could strip Birkenhead flat of works built up over 30 years

An extraordinary palace of outsider art secretly created in a ground floor flat in Birkenhead has been saved after a last minute cash loan offer from a benefactor.

Campaigners had feared that the flat, known as Ron’s Place, would be stripped of its art and lost forever after the house it is in was put up for auction.