Chester Memories: Exhibition of Lache features in Chester History and Heritage Centre

By Chester Chronicle on Nov 3, 09 10:33 AM in 1900-1999

IMAGES of Lache in the 1940s will be shown alongside contemporary photos to portray daily local life linked across half a century.

The Lache Photographic Project, Life in Lache in 2009, funded by Lache Neighbourhood Management and the former Chester City Council, was started by celebrated photographer David Heke and took place earlier this year in February.

Lache Primary School took part in the project along with members of the Lache Saturday Club, students of Queen's Park High School and individual residents of Lache, to collect contemporary photographs for the exhibition.

This display is to show the best of their work taken with disposable cameras with evocative photos from the 1940s supplied by the Chester Heritage and History Centre bringing to life the changing face of the area.

Chester photographers David Heke, of Boughton, and Alison Parry, of Lache, helped organise the exhibition with community development workers Joanne Roberts and Julia Wilson.

David said: "The project is to help bring Lache into the fold of the Chester district and to help engage with the community."

This exhibition is the first of three Lache community arts projects including a mosaic project led by potter Neil Glendinning and a sign project for the new offices of Lache Park Ltd at Hawthorne House with the help of All Seasons Ltd tree sculptors.

Lache Now and Then has been touring several venues in suburb since July and the Chester History and Heritage Centre will be the next in line to showcase the project, from November 2-26, with the County Hall and Forum Offices to follow.

The three pictures reproduced here show Lache schoolchildren and teachers in the 1940s.