Days of the New Town Exhibition now on at Warrington Museum and Art Gallery

The exhibition of photos from Warrington New Town Development Corporation and a specially collated ‘People’s Archive’ will run in Warrington Museum and Art Gallery until 15th September. A huge thank you to all the residents who donated pictures and other materials from their own archives to the exhibition. The full set of photographs will appear here on the blog soon.

An essay entitled ‘The Last Utopia’ by co-curator Su Fitzpatrick accompanies the exhibition, it is available as a pamphlet at the Museum and also here:

The Last Utopia

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Author: daysofthenewtown

I'm Susan Fitzpatrick, I am a lecturer in Human Geography at York St John University. My research interests revolve around how the idea of community is constructed in cultural, housing and regeneration policy. I am currently looking at the ways we can understand the evolution of the New Town in the UK, and how place making and identity intersect with the design principles of the New Town of Warrington, particularly the ecological planing approach pursued in the area of Birchwood.

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