Yesterday had a look at the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool. It’s a small place, but not a bad building, near North Station. At the moment there is a collection of photographs mounted in acrylic to give a high gloss look. The theme is ‘the world is a stage’. A collection of people who are involved in showbusiness but photographed outside their normal setting in isolation like an empty corridor. Several larger than life people from Las Vegas to Blackpool. Not a bad presentation, didn’t take long to see and wouldn’t travel far just to see it. There is a local history gallery upstairs which doesn’t do Blackpool justice.
Then had a look in Blackpool library and its local history room and found some interesting stuff for the Preston website. Blackpool library isn’t part of Lancashire library service so I can’t take out books, that’s one effect of unitary councils.
So Preston has a better library, art gallery and museum and it has 2 other museums and the local records office. Shame Blackpool can’t improve theirs as it has an interesting history.