While Salford isn’t my home town, I’ve become attached to this location and having spent the last 3 years of my life here I have grown fond of the area and enjoy learning about the cities heritage and culture.
Today I found out about an outreach project titled ‘Retracing Salford‘ that involves the local galleries, artists and residents to commemorate their ‘lost streets’ through archiving and preserving images, films, artefacts and oral histories.
http://streetsmuseum.co.uk/
The aim of the Streets Museum wesbite is to:
“create an online Streets Museum, to enable families, friends and relations of Salfordians to search for and commemorate their districts and streets.”
Using the District Six Museum, South Africa as inspiration they aim to develop further research into urban community histories.
Below are some images from a number of exhibitions that have taken place in and around Salford that are involved with the project.
Hope Street Chapel:
http://web.me.com/streetsmuseum/Site_2/Exhibitions/Entries/2010/8/4_Heritage_Open_Days.html
Images from the Heritage Open Days: September 2009. Media: coat hangers, family albums, snaps, maps, street signs, oral histories.
Industrial Heritage Sites:
Industrial Heritage Sites: March - Sept 2007.
“Industrial storage containers, wrapped in family photographs, were placed amongst the machinery at industrial heritage sites. The objects evoked the life like presence of former industrial communities. The streets museum aims to develop the inclusion of urban community histories at these sites.” Industrial Heritage Sites Website
The Lowry – 17th September 2010:
Enlarged family snaps from Salford communities were made into posters and pasted to the walls of the gallery.
http://web.me.com/streetsmuseum/Site_2/Exhibitions/Entries/2010/9/17_The_Lowry%2C_Salford.html
For full list of exhibitions, images and information visit the street museums website.
This project was inspired by the District Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa for more details on this see below:
http://www.districtsix.co.za/aboutus.htm
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Thanks for posting this description of our project, which can be found on the online http://www.Streetsmuseum.co.uk website. It’s inspiring to read an excellent summary. We are now continually developing the project. Our next launch is Fri 30th Sept, 5.30-7.00pm, at Chapel St Gallery, (near Salford Arms Pub), in the United Reformed Church. The exhibition runs from Sept 30th 2011-March 31st 2012. Many thanks, Lawrence Cassidy, Project Co-ordinator.