Warrington Museum and Art Gallery will be welcoming visitors to the Days of the New Town: Birchwood at 50 exhibition from Saturday June 30th. The exhibition will show photographs of Birchwood as the planners imagined it and how residents lived it. The images will bring to public view some of the Development Corporation’s photographs as Birchwood in its design and early construction phase, and the early days of Birchwood’s “pioneer” residents as they settled in to this frontier town on the edge of Cheshire Lancashire border. The exhibition covers the early 1970’s to the late 1980’s and provides a fascinating glimpse into how both the planners and the residents pictured this new place. To those of you visiting the exhibition from Birchwood, there will be forms in the exhibition inviting you to share your thoughts and reflections on your early experiences of living in Birchwood either in writing or at a group session, please consider filling in one of these so you can be part of the project as it moves forward into next year.
Days of the New Town 