Lancashire Archives - Museum of Photocopies

Entering the Memory Vortex #2

Let’s introduce one new thing by talking about another. Let’s not. Let’s do nothing, but stare at memories of the East Lancashire Moors. For what else is there to do? We can wander round places we have never ever been to, that’s what. Let’s enter the Memory Vortex.

Memory Vortex - Lancashire Moors #3 — A photograph (iphone7) of a photocopy of a PDF file of a scan of a freehand Indian ink drawing on paper. Here is a shepherd and a delivery truck. These are the Modern Times on the East Lancashire moors. This is what is going on there.

Memory Vortex - Lancashire Moors #4 — A photograph (iphone7) of a photocopy of a PDF file of a scan of a freehand Indian ink drawing on paper. Here is a model with an outsized vegetable and the ubiquitous abandoned bath. These are the Modern Times on the East Lancashire moors. This is what is going on there.

Memory Vortex - Lancashire Moors #5 — A photograph (iphone7) of a photocopy of a PDF file of a scan of a freehand Indian ink drawing on paper. Here is a Hen Harrier with an abandoned dwelling, a gnome and more modern rubbish. These are the Modern Times on the East Lancashire moors. This is what is going on there.

Entering the Memory Vortex #1

Memory Vortex - Lancashire Moors #1 — A photograph (iphone7) of a photocopy of a PDF file of a scan of a freehand Indian ink drawing on paper. These are the Modern Times on the East Lancashire moors. This is what is going on there.

Memory Vortex - Lancashire Moors #2 — A photograph (iphone7) of a photocopy of a PDF file of a scan of a freehand Indian ink drawing on paper. Here is an owl and the detritus of modern life. And there is a blasted tree. These are the Modern Times on the East Lancashire moors. This is what is going on there.

Blue #3

There is a peculiar shade of blue that pervades certain parts of Accrington. Not always seen, it can nevertheless be sensed as a strong visual memory over long periods of time and sometimes in other places, far removed from this former manufacturing town in East Lancashire. The blue can be put to various uses. In modern parlance, it is a “positive” force. And the curator invoked it at various times during that strangest of decades, the 1990s.