Those of us from Blackpool who attended had a very enjoyable day, meeting up with old friends and generally enjoying the exhibitions and of course visiting the traders!
The morning speaker was Gillian Lonergan from The Co-operative Heritage Trust who gave an informative presentation about the significance and history of banners within the Co-operative movement, which of course has it's home in Rochdale.
More about their fascinating work can be found at:
http://www.archive.coop/support-us/co-operative-heritage-trust
The Co-operative Women's Guilds and their history
and the growth of co-operative societies was also covered and provided us with lots of information, which along with an opportunity to see some of the banners from the collection made for an interesting morning.
Following a hot buffet lunch we all settled down to listen to our afternoon speaker Anne Brooke.
Anne is a textile artist based in Yorkshire and certainly no one was taking a post lunch dose as she delivered an entertaining story of her life in textiles so far. From a dad who said "NO TO ART" to her mum who was very supportive of her work to the present day selection of her work this was certainly a talk full of interest and humour.
Anne uses old maps and lots of repurposed papers in her work which give some wonderful effects
More of Anne's work can be seen here:
http://www.annebrooke.co.uk/gallery.html
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