Flintshire Memories: An Exhibition of Edwardian photography has gone on display thanks to the late Dai Price of Mynydd Isa

By Flintshire Chronicle on Nov 7, 09 05:13 PM in 1900-1999

THE wife of a man who was the brainchild behind a photography exhibition is happy his ambitions are finally being realised after his death, writes Francesca Elliott.

An Edwardian Family Album, an exhibition of photographs taken by a Merseyside family in the early 1900s, is on display at the Lady Lever Gallery in Port Sunlight, Wirral, but David Price of Mynydd Isa, died from cancer before it opened.

David, known as Dai, was a keen photography historian and member of Mold Camera Club, and along with his wife Heather, who found the photos 20 years ago, wanted to share the photos with the public.

Heather said: "I found 580 glass negatives in my house in Bebington before I met Dai.
"Dai loved them, but wanted to wait until he retired before he did something with them.
"We met at the nuclear plant in Capenhurst where we both worked.

"We knew someone with connections to the Lady Lever Gallery, so Dai started the process of organising the exhibition.

"He always wanted to share them with people. Sadly he died of cancer in January 2008, before he could see the photos displayed. He was only 62, I wanted a tangible memory of Dai, so along with Caroline Johnson from Mold Book Shop, who I went to Carmel Primary School with, I made a book of the exhibition.

"I know he would have loved it, the photos are so beautiful.

"Some of the profits are going to Clatterbridge Hospital where he was treated."

The exhibition shows Jack and Biddy Urton with their daughters Mary and Lois before the First World War, and will be on display until May 3.

The book An Edwardian Family Album is available at The Bookshop, Mold.