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Visitors to our Exhibition at Salford Museum, Summer 2016
We’ve had lots of visitors to the Exhibition and many people have shared memories and stories with us. You can read some of the memories on the Memory Book page and we’ve added some of the information about the photographs to our Feature Photos page. Today we spoke to Barbera Kemp and Joan Allen, […]
Shop Heritage Trail, 3rd June 2016
We had a glorious day for taking photographs along on shop heritage trail on Cheetham Hill Road on Friday 3rd June. Part of the Manchester Histories Festival, the activity was designed to match up today’s shops with the photographs from the archive – part mystery tour, part heritage quiz and part ‘X Marks the Spot’! […]
Preparing for the Exhibition
Its getting exciting as there’s now only two weeks left to our project exhibition launch at Salford Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday 18th June. Our team have been incredibly busy over the past couple of months preparing some of the best images and themes to display. With over 6,000 images to chose from, it […]
Women Working Together Textiles Project
Today we went to meet the Women Working Together group at the Broughton Hub where they meet each week. We had done some work with the group previously and they had expressed interest in taking part in this project when they knew it was linked to a greater understanding of migration to Cheetham Hill, and […]
Specialist Film and Glass Plate Cleaning
The collection arrived in its original boxes, most of which hadn’t been opened for decades and were full of dust and dirt. We invited Photographic Conservation specialist, Lorraine Finch, to appraise the collection and, later, to run training courses on handling, cleaning and rehousing the negatives for our staff and volunteers. Since January 2015 we’ve […]
‘Home from Home’ Textiles Banner
The ‘Women Working Together’ group are from Pakistan, mainly from Faisalabad, a city with close connections to Manchester because of the textiles industry. In fact its’ industrial story is so closely related to Manchester, that in Pakistan it is known as ‘the Manchester of Pakistan’. This story inspired the ‘Home from Home’ textile banner, as […]
Cleaning and Storing the Archive
We advertised on the Do It volunteering site at Salford CVS for Archive and Photographic volunteering roles. We really didn’t know how much interest we would have in the work, and we were totally delighted to have a huge response to the advert. We now have a regular group of volunteers who work with our […]
