| Details | In Defiance of Gravity, Warehouse, Sat 30 Apr – Sun 15 May. Open 10.00am - 5.00pm daily
Images of Auschwitz by Richard Kolker, Sugar Store Gallery, Open as Art Centre
Evidence, Malt Room, Open 10.am - 9.00pm daily The Brewery Arts Centre, Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4HE
To contact box office for information and booking telephone 01539 725133 |
These photographs have never been seen in public before. In a situation having echoes of the famous Ealing comedies of the time, the tranquility of Windermere and its local community over 60 years ago was broken by the arrival and construction of an important wartime industrial aircraft factory. Over a few months, the area around Whitecross Bay, now a caravan park, saw the construction of what was to become a major factory employing over 1500 workers from throughout the UK. After the war the factory just as quickly vanished. The remarkable, secretly taken wartime photographs of the factory, only recently came to light when Windermere resident Alan King received them from the son of the wartime factory manager. In Defiance of Gravity, curated by Trevor Avery and Alan King, will be showing in the Warehouse exhibition space. Other exhibits there will include debris from a Flying Boat built in Windermere but which crashed on a remote hillside in Scotland killing all on board. Other Exhibitions
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The exhibition is one of three powerful exhibitions to be seen for a short period only throughout the Brewery Art Centre in Kendal as part of the Lottery Funded Forties Fortnight to commemorate 60 years since VE Day. The other two exhibitions at the Brewery are artist Richard Kolker's powerful Images of Auschwitz, from the Imperial War Museum North, which will be showing in the Sugar Store Gallery. Whilst the Malt Room will be home to Evidence, curated by Jayne Davis, a moving exhibition of memorabilia and digital exhibition based on memories and artifacts of the Second World War. |
