In the Absence of a Sunday Walk ...

... still grotty weather - and the rest might do my leg a bit of good ! Even so we went for a wander round Oldham Gallery - must admit, I've not been there before (it was built in 2002 as well, so ...). Anyway it passed an hour on a cold Sunday, and there were some fairly interesting bits of stuff as well ...



A VERY early "PhotoStitch" - a panorama of Oldham Centre taken in 1876 by local snapper Squire Knott - nine photo plates joined together (although this version has been "tidied up" using modern technology).

There was also a "now and then" exhibition of photos of Oldham Road ('twixt Oldham and Manchester) by Charlie Meecham - again interesting to the the changes - mostly demolition of "old stuff" !! Another gallery contained artwork from children's book illustrators - most of them were 'too new' for me and Mrs S to know about - our kids were young many years ago - but there were some "Alfie" pictures by Shirley Hughes, who we DID remember from the 80s/90s ...



... finally this is part of the "Chameleons and Shape Shifters" exhibition by Michael Shaw - a piece of 'live edge acrylic' - unlit - which has been 'vacuum blown' into a 3D shape - very unusual ...

... and then we went to Sainsburys - and it's chicken for tea !!!