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Elsie Varr's unfinished streets
A printer's views of a growing town found their subject in temporary fences, blank walls and the spaces between completed buildings.
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A theatre of borrowed scenery
The scenery cupboard of a small dramatic society explains how a limited stage could contain a remarkable variety of imagined places.
Early twentieth centuryRead
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The notebooks of an evening singing class
Annotations made between rehearsals offer a close view of musical learning as part of an ordinary working week.
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In the margins at Minster Lane
A second-hand bookseller's habit of retaining pencilled notes created an accidental record of conversations between readers who never met.
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The ceramic map at Halverne library
A wall of individually made tiles turned a familiar district into a public artwork that rewarded disagreement about small details.
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