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HUNDREDS VISIT EXHIBITION IN FIRST WEEK
We’re delighted to report that hundreds of people have already visited our Behind The Wall exhibition since it launched on March 3.
Exhibition Opens Tonight!
We’re finally able to reveal what goes on Behind The Wall as our exhibition officially opens tonight at Lancaster City Museum!
3rd March 2017
Man of the cloth – how a Lancashire artist is going back to his roots
IN the 1970s the world of textiles was dominated by women, but that didn’t stop Michael Brennand-Wood pursuing his passion - first at Bolton College of Art, then in Manchester. After all he’d been taught to sew and knit by his grandmother who worked in one of the mills in Summerseat, near Bury. Now, more than six decades later, Michael – who is one of the country’s top textile artists with work in...
HUNDREDS SEE WHAT’S BEHIND THE WALL
More than 200 people attended our Behind The Wall open day at Standfast & Barracks recently.
Michael Brennand-Wood workshops
What a great time we had at the Michael Brennand-Wood workshops at Standfast & Barracks. Thanks to everyone who took part and contributed to Michael's final in-situ piece. The artwork is well on its way now...
Megan Joins Mirador
Mirador is delighted to welcome Megan Makinson, a history student at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, as our Behind The Wall research assistant.
BEHIND THE WALL GOES AHEAD!
We’re delighted to report that our Behind The Wall project is now underway.
Them Fascinating Bones!
Lancaster City Museum has recently acquired some interesting items linked to the time when the Standfast & Barracks site was a World War One internment camp.
Old News, New Insights
Picture courtesy of Lancaster City Museum
As most of us know, local newspapers can be a great source of interesting stories from yesteryear, and the Lancaster Guardian doesn’t disappoint when it comes to discovering more about what was going on at the city’s internment camp in Caton Road a century ago.