The new digital artwork celebrating Salford's - and the UK's - first park
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA new ‘immersive’ digital artwork is coming to Salford’s Peel Park — giving visitors a unique view back to the past. The artwork, called The Storm Cone, has been created by Laura Daly with music from Lucy Pankhurst.
It reveals the park’s historic bandstand, and the importance the structure had. The history of the bandstand in Peel Park is especially important, as it was the first public park to open in the UK funded entirely ‘by people’s subscription’.
That was back in 1846, with the Royal Museum and Library, the country’s first free public lending library, opening at its entrance four years later. READ MORE: Phillip Schofield reveals Tom Cruise 'caused absolute chaos' at Queen's Jubilee after going against protocol That building is now the Salford Museum and Art Gallery, and provides a gorgeous backdrop for The Storm Cone.
By using an app, visitors can witness an outline of the bandstand where it once stood — and also hear music how it would have sounded at the time. “The app leads you to a ghost bandstand, where ghost musicians have set up their music stands,” Nicholas Blincoe, award-winning novelist, film-maker and historian, said. “I continued walking around and around, lost in time.
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