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A Woman’s Perspective: Life in the Station Community
Recollections of particular fire incidents and their personal lasting effects ...
Banners
Three banners, crafted in traditional Trade Union style with participants quotes and thoughts about the NHS ...
Behind the Screens
Series of medical screens with digital prints on linen of ‘Many Happy Returns NHS’ participants and their quotes ...
Curious Tales from a Fire Station
Quirky Curious Tales told by the Firefighters of events at the Station ...
Final Exhibition
The final exhibition was held at Leeds Central Library from 13th June to 5th July 2019 ...
Gipton Fire Station Extravaganza
Gipton Fire Station Extravaganza. This is when the project was launched on the 24 September 2016 ...
Gipton Fire Station just before it was de decommissioned in October 2015
Space2 commissioned Lizzy Coombes to photograph Gipton Fire Station just before it was de decommissioned in October 2015 ...
Glowing Embers Choir
Rehearsals. Boff Whalley and Jane Morland worked with two local primary schools, Wykebeck and St Nicholas’s to write a song about one of the retired firefighters Mick Maw who they met and his wife June to ask questions and hear their stories ...
Grand Opening
The Grand Opening of the refurbished Fire Station in Gipton 30 September 2017 for the community ...
In the Waiting Room
An appliquéd armchair which incorporates individual stories and experiences about the NHS ...
Medicine and Memories
This collection Many Happy Returns – 70 Years of NHS Memories tells the personal stories of people from across Leeds who have been patients, volunteers and staff ...
Old Fire Engines Slideshow
A short film photo archive of Old Fire Engines at Gipton Fire Station ...
Pop Up Smart Gallery
We ran Pop up Smart Gallery (Social Museum and Art Gallery) at St Nicholas Primary School and Welbeck Primary School for a week in each school in May and June 2017 with artists in residence Helen Peyton ...
Show and Tell
Throughout the project we ran Show and Tell sessions allowing people to link their objects with the history of the Gipton Fire Station ...
Smart Gallery at Gipton Fire Station
Images from the Smart Gallery - SMART Museum (Social Museum and Art Gallery) run by artists in residence Helen Peyton was in The Old Fire Station for a month in September and October 2017 ...
Stories from Inside the Station
Firelighters antics and stories relating to different parts of the public building we see today ...
Tales of Firefighting Incidents
Recollections of particular fire incidents and their personal lasting effects ...
The Making of the Old Fire Station
A photographic diary of Gipton Fire Station during its building refurbishment in 2017 ...
When an elephant needed help from Gipton firefighters
An oral history by Jane Moreland of Norman, a retired Gipton Firefighter talking about a very special call when he had to help an elephant on Killingbeck Fields ...
