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Learn more about fees Contains OS and National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right (2018) Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right (2018) Sign our campaign for a grant funding review The scheme will be put to Oldham Council on 20 February and three-bedroom houses off Springfield Road The site in question is a former railway cutting accessed from the south by Springfield Road more than 50,000 cubic metres of clean fill material will be required to level out the site while the housing mix would see four one-bed A planning statement submitted by Axis Planning Environmental Design indicates each property would have two parking spaces including a half-acre plot which would adjoin Sparrows Park to the site’s north use the reference number 13910/22 in Bolton Council’s planning portal The linear arrangement of the scheme follows the path of an old train line Read our comments policy Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" I can’t get on Bolton’s portal but this alignment goes directly beneath the main road and connects to Stoneclough One would hope that the estate road will be connected for walking and cycling to Stoneclough at one end and south towards Blackleach Park (again walking and cycling) at the other By Flixton resident (and former Radcliffe) The borough claims it has a “disproportionately high number of HMOs” and is to pursuing the introduction of measures to wrestle back control The housing association is working with main contractor Caddick to build 69 social rent homes for over 55s and a GP surgery on 2.5 acres of disused land on Arrow Street in Broughton Register for free North West property intelligence Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" Join more than 13,000 property professionals and sign up to receive your free daily round-up of built environment news direct to your inbox By subscribing, you are agreeing to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_3" ).setAttribute( "value"  Words and photos by James McAleerI meet Morwenna Kearsley in mid-afternoon the day before the launch of Apparatus, her new solo show at Strange Field’s gallery space at French Street.  Morwenna worked with Greater Govanhill on the Fonds project during a two year community-based residency in Govanhill with Street Level Photoworks Fonds documented evocative objects that people hold dear: a plaster a homemade holder for a snooker cue,  each object set against luxurious As she walks me through the show (despite the looming launch I’m surprised by that same visual signature “A little nod to my last project with Greater Govanhill magazine “I just wanted to make a little bridge between [solo work and] the other side of my practice “Normally you would put a lightproof bag round it But instead I walked down the corridor and twirled it like a baton And these – she points to streaks on the print “are the light leaks coming in it's like inviting the light to react with the pictures.” Informed by a research project which focused on the industrial manufacture of albumen papers in the 19th century Apparatus ‘centres around the tools and materials that make photography possible and the meaning we assign to our experiences through a system of signs and symbols’ The show’s title emphasises the physicality of photography – tripods and like an apparition the works in Apparatus flit over boundaries procedural approaches to the craft of photography Once the borders of a print are literally torn ragged A body is scattered throughout like a deconstructed collage profiles split and interrupted and refracted in prisms; a surreal approach with which Morwenna consciously places herself in a feminist tradition dating back to the 1920s effectively dislocate her head from its shoulders where it has been replaced by the larger than life cyclop’s eye of a medium-format camera (more than once and when she specifies the titular Mask as one of death literally point the way to French Street from billboards on Duke Street and West Graham different formats: I find them hung at different heights or almost sprawled on the floor when working with a medium which is out in the world in so many different ways “moving between all these different formats between looking into images and looking at images” changes the pace of encounter.I find it fluid Morwenna describes herself as a process-based artist: for her the work of photography takes place as much in the darkroom as behind the lens Another reason she works with analogue photography is “because it invites some chance elements I'm excited when I see an image because I don't know exactly how it's going to turn out The exhibition is situated on the ground floor of Strange Field and runs Saturday 2nd until Sunday 24th November with late openings til 7pm every Thursday.APPARATUS will also take place across the city works from the project will populate sites across Glasgow including their West Graham Street lightboxes This relationship between photography within the public space and the history of the billboard advertisement seen through a feminist lens is explored through these site specific works and mirrored in the large scale photographic work housed within French Street Complaints | Privacy a community interest company registered in Scotland: SC656194 No content can be replicated without permission We chat with author Susanna Kearsley about The King’s Messenger and the limits of one’s duty in this rich story of an honorable man in service to a treacherous king and the mission that brings him to love and his true calling I’m a former museum curator who was born into a family of amateur genealogists which means when I go down a research rabbit hole it ends up being more of a rabbit warren my family moved every few years when I was growing up and while my home base has mostly been in Canada My mom’s dad was a movie projectionist who used to take my sister and me to his movie theatre when we were little and I blame him for the fact that sitting in the dark watching movies on the big screen is my happy place (I just wish everyone around me would stop talking) but my love of stories most probably came from the fact that my parents read to my sister and me all the time My mother read us Greek myths and fairy tales as bedtime stories but would sometimes illustrate the stories as he read Our house was full of books – my mother owned an independent bookstore when I was little – and I was reading by the age of three so books and stories opened my imagination very early on A reader who picks up The King’s Messenger can expect to be thrust back in time to Shakespeare’s day and trying to survive within the corridors of intrigue of the royal court in London and upon the rugged open roads of Scotland ordinary people doing all they can to stand up to injustice Building books is a little like building a snowball – you pack on a little from here the first little bit of snow came in the form of a used book I found by chance years ago – The History of the King’s Messengers from which I learned the history of that branch of the royal service and how they weren’t only the messengers of the king but the men who were sent to arrest traitors and return them to stand trial but I didn’t have anywhere to use a King’s Messenger at the moment who still live on the Scottish lands of Abercairny where John was born and raised contacted me and became not only my friends especially where it concerned their family history And one of the things I discovered was that a member of their family had been the closest servant and companion to Prince Henry patron of the arts – who believed a king should rule by the will of his people His tragic death at 18 plunged the nation into mourning I had my first bit of snow – a King’s Messenger ready to be sent to find and arrest a traitor who’d practically raised Prince Henry from childhood I just had to shape those three handfuls of snow into something that made the right shape my research process can be a little like the journey my characters take in The King’s Messenger – I start out with the basics I need because I don’t know what I’ll need to know until I get where I’m going on the voices of people from the past – their letters and journals if any were left behind – and on the original paintings and drawings that show me their world through the eyes of the people who lived in it See alsoQ&A: Sara B. Larson, Author of ‘Sisters of Shadow and Light’ I sometimes get surprised in the best way by characters who just wander into the story This happened in The King’s Messenger when my heroine stepped ashore at the port of Leith and was met unexpectedly by a little boy named Hector Reid but I’ve been doing this for enough years that I’ve learned that when a character walks into a story the best thing to do is to leave them alone and see what happens They can always be taken out in the rewrite I tell myself (though I’ve never actually had to take one out) Hector ended up being a great joy to write – he brought out elements of the other characters that I don’t think would have come out otherwise and I was always curious to see how he would turn the day’s events just by being part of the group I’m glad he turned up on the Shore of Leith They seem very far away when I begin the book but they are a necessary part of my process I’d probably just stay in the world of that book forever and never finish I’ll look up from my writing and realize the deadline is very and then I’ll have to put my head down again and just write Right now I’m working on a story with multiple timelines one of which involves the son of the main characters of The King’s Messenger and another of which is set in the present day – something I haven’t done for awhile There are far too many books coming out this year that I want to read for me to list here but I can give you a handful: Jon Hickey’s debut novel Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Martian Contingency Schwab’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil and Nalini Singh has two new books out this year – Archangel’s Ascension and Atonement Sky beautifully designed and comes with everything you need to engage your visitors and increase conversions Ruya showcases a new collection of photographs made over the last year, created during an extended series of workshops, facilitated by Morwenna Kearsley, the photographer behind FONDS The title is primarily a female name of Arabic origin that means vision They also document the process of discovering a photographic voice: through workshopping Taking inspiration from photographers such as Shirin Nashat Zanele Muholi and Vivian Maier; visiting museums and galleries and undertaking workshops in the studio and the darkroom the group used their cameras to look at themselves and each other as their lives progressed and changed.  The group originally met in 2021 through funded photography workshops Morwenna was offering, hosted by local social enterprises in Govanhill, such as Milk, Bees Knees and Small Plate, as part of her Culture Collective residency with Street Level Photoworks. Beginning with photowalks in the local area and workshops in studio portraiture the group moved on to a new project in 2023 with the work produced from workshops in the facilities at Street Level Photoworks. Over the time that the group have known each other Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to her son who contributed to the project in the first year and to previous exhibitions of work My Country at Trongate 103 and Milk Café in 2022.