The Days of the New Town project will be hosting a stall at Birchwood Carnival on Sunday June 3rd. This is an opportunity to have a look through some of the pictures from the Warrington New Town Development Corporation archive of photos of Birchwood in its very earliest days – as you may well have never seen it before! It is also the last chance residents will have to come in person to share photos of your own early days in Birchwood before the exhibition Days of the New Town: Birchwood at 50 opens at Warrington Museum and Art Gallery on June 30th. Residents past and present have been sharing their photos with the project over the last 9 months so that they can be part of the People’s Archive part of the exhibition which runs until September 15th this year. Please raid those albums, desk drawers, lofts and boxes for photos of your life in Birchwood from the mid 70’s through the late 80’s. These might be pics of family life, community events, landscapes… Anything that gives a sense of the social life of Birchwood in its early days, and/or how the landscape has changed over the years. Looking forward to seeing you at Birchwood Forest Park on June. If you can’t make it to the Carnival, please consider sharing your photos on http://www.facebook.com/daysofthenewtown or by sending a message via the contact tab of this blog. Here are some of the pics people have donated so far.
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