Fish and chips...

We launched the fish and chip shop community newspaper on Friday in the rain - there's nothing quite like chips in the rain! Susanne and Kaspar have been working with the communities of Rossendale to develop these papers, asking questions about how people relate to nature in modern society. Many of specimens in the collections at the museum are there because of how the Victorians liked to collect natural history and their fascination with the outdoors - we were interested to see how people relate to this subject now. The first paper, entitled 'dust never hurt anyone' was developed by the lads at Belmount School, and their workshops were based around their allotments, and building structures out of what they found there. One of my favourite extracts from the first newspaper:
"I like bugs - because they have to defend themselves against bigger creatures"

Some of the lads from Belmount school who designed the first paper came down to pose for the cameras.

The are 500 copies of each newspaper edition being used at Tony's fish and chip shop in Rawtenstall and there are 6 editions, with each one being released on the first of the month.