No Rubbish Tipped Here (2012)
No Rubbish Tipped Here: If there’s an empty space people will play in it!
The Secret Gardens Festival in 2012 celebrated the rich creative talent in Salford and Trafford with a range of unique events that took place across the both areas, showcasing a diverse range of local undiscovered talent and creativity. The Festival took place between Thursday 7 and Saturday 23 June 2012 in various locations across the region. For the festival, the Modernist Society launched a series of four postcards that illustrated pre-generated urban spaces which acted as alternative gardens and unlikely playgrounds for a generation of Salfordians.
The images were selected from an archive collated by the University of Salford from their intergenerational project ‘Salford in Pictures’. The images, taken by non professional photographers and local people, reveal beauty in unexpected places. We even made it into The Guardian: 'a cities wondrous, eerie, unofficial gardens'
