Today I have been working my way through our collections project database, finding all the items in our local collections which are related to World War I. This is in preparation for an exhibition at the Brindley in October and I have already found a few gems, including the Certificate of Honour seen here.
I’ve also been clearing the backlog of email, arranging things for Heritage Open Days, making appointments to see artists and making contact with our local branches of the British Legion. All in an interesting day’s work.
For various reasons I haven’t posted in a while, but it’s nice to be back. I’ve been kept busy with the great news that the Heritage lottery Fund bid I was working on with colleagues has been successful. Working Lives: Working Together will support Halton’s Heritage, a partnership of public and community collections to catalogue objects, documents and photographs, making them publicly accessible online, and will also record oral histories and create new history trails in the borough.
Plus we have a fabulous exhibition A Landscape of Marginal Encounters by artist Claire Weetman at the Brindley. Find out more about Claire’s work at www.claireweetman.co.uk
Hazlehurst artists have been working on a project called Old Town Bloom they have been developing to improve the look of Runcorn Town Centre. The culmination of this project will be a celebration on August 5th, so if you are local, pay them a visit at the Memorial Gardens, just opposite the bus station. You can follow their progress on twitter @Studio_73a
