Stories of Iron Gate
The space
Our feelings of the space in Iron Gate and what we want our installation to achieve.
Interesting Iron Gate material
Gathering together stories from the past from various sources, including the Derby Local Studies and Family History Library on Full Street.
Story ideas
Some quick storyboard ideas including stories about workers from Bennett's, Derby.
Richard Keene: A meeting with his Great Grandson
Details and insight into a meeting with the Derby photographer Richard Keene's great Grandson John Keene, a schoolteacher in Derby.
Rad Andjelic
Research on Radovan Andjelic, owner of Fabric International on Irongate and later the Marketplace, Derby.
Sidney in the Print Room at Derby University
Sidney creating images for the Stories of Iron Gate project in the University of Derby Print Room.
A proposed, canopy installation for Iron Gate, Derby, which will unfold as a kind of open, illustrated “street book” of sequential images, connecting visitors and the people of Derby to this historic street by celebrating the individual human stories hidden behind the walls of the buildings.
A collection of Iron Gate story sketches.
During the Second World War, the painting of the staff canteen at Bennetts had to be finished using a job lot of custard powder, due to a shortage of white wash.
Richard Keene taking a picture of Iron Gate from his photographic gallery.
Derby clockmaker John Whitehurst going into the peak district with his father as a boy and looking in wonder at the stars.
Activities at the historic coaching inn called The George (now Jorrocks) in the 16th Century.
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Sidney experimenting in the print studio at Derby University.
