The Horror of Deane Church Lane

This is an audio story by Mark Jackson which accompanies an augmented reality PopupView campaign. Walk around the park, find the PopupView scenes, popup the animals and hear their tales. Find out more about this walk here: http://www.popupview.com/views-in-farnworth-park/

Take this guided walk and immerse yourself in new music created exclusively by up and coming North West based electronic producers, mentored by Mark Peters and Ulrich Schnauss. Each producer has woven site specific sounds both freshly recorded and archived into their tracks that take in 8 sites across Wigan (including 4 brand new tracks by Mark Peters & Ulrich Schnauss).

**WIGAN** **START ON THE CORNER OF KING STREET AND WALLGATE, NEXT TO POPWORLD BY THE PURPLE DOOR** **PLEASE NOTE: We recommend experiencing this walk between the hours of 9am and 5pm.** Grab your headphones and get ready to be immersed in this latest solo audio experience from ThickSkin. The memories of Wigan are waiting for you. Listen closely to the sounds around you, find the voice of your guide and the memory will become clearer. Welcome to the in between. A place where all our memories are stored. Hear that sound? Distant and muffled. The memories of people past and present. Feel the gentle rumble under your feet? This pavement holds a history. This Is Where We Begin takes you on a journey around Wigan town centre. It has been developed by a group of local young creatives alongside ThickSkin’s Artistic Director, Neil Bettles, and Associate Director, Joseph Walsh, as a celebration of the town’s past, present, and future. A 40 minute walking experience in Wigan Suitable for ages 12+ **Creative Team** Created by ThickSkin's Young Creatives: Aoife Anderson Cara Bacon Connor Wood Isabel Kenny Matt Parncutt Matthew Martin-Warren Megan Price Robyn Carter Ruben Burger Director - Neil Bettles Associate Director - Joseph Walsh Composer & Sound Designer - Neil Bettles Participation Producer - Abi Beaven Executive Producer - Laura Mallows App Developer - ECHOES **Cast of voices** Aoife Anderson Abi Beaven Cara Bacon Connor Wood Isabel Kenny Joseph Walsh Matthew Martin-Warren Megan Price Robyn Carter Ruben Burger

A project inspired by boards that have lost their information, though they are not information-less. They are still in-formation, just not by us: a call for considering other-beings and our place in the world with them.

A fantastic audio tour of the Churchyard of St Mary's, Prestwich. Charting over 400 years of the social history of Prestwich, Manchester and beyond. Read more at people.prestwich.org.uk **PLEASE START THE APP BEFORE APPROACHING THE CHURCHYARD TO GET YOUR GPS POSITION ACCURATE Credits: Ian Pringle - Saint Mary Prestwich ; A Description of the Churchyard http://www.prestwichheritage.co.uk/saint-mary-prestwich-a-description-of-the-churchyard/ The Oldham Tinkers - Peterloo - https://youtu.be/RgLpCjL7X-M

Today Heaton Park is the largest urban park in the UK, covering over 600 acres. Grade II listed by the English Heritage Register of Parks, the park contains a number of features including, a golf course, boating lake, animal farm, ornamental gardens, woodlands, adventure playground and bowling greens. In 1772 Sir Thomas Egerton commissioned James Wyatt to design a home for his family. Heaton Hall was completed in 1789. James Wyatt also designed some of the other buildings around the park. Sir Thomas later employed William Emes to landscape the park. The estate remained in the Egerton family until 1902 when the 5th Earl of Wilton decided to sell the hall and park. Manchester Corporation bought the estate for £230,000 and provided a number of public facilities. During WWI the park was used as a training ground for the Manchester Pals battalions and the hall became a military hospital. During WWII the Royal Air Force used the park to train aircrew and a barrage balloon was placed there. The park was restored in a partnership between the Heritage Lottery Fund and Manchester City Council. This recreated some of the original Emes landscape around the Hall and restored four of the Wyatt buildings. The sound walk can follow all of the stops; or you can customise the walk to visit the locations of your choice. You can even make a stop at one of the 4 cafés in the park; located at the stables, the boathouse, Heaton Park garden centre and Heaton Park golf centre. The audio clips for this sound walk are from the Manchester Oral Histories collection (UAP007) held at Archives+, Manchester Central Library and from Manchester Studies collection (UAP008) held at Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre, Ashton.

This sound walk guides you through Kersal Wetlands, a stunning outdoor space created as part of a £10 million flood protection scheme. This site was once home to the Manchester Racecourse, which attracted up to 70,000 people but closed in 1962. Now, it is a fabulous new home for birds, wildlife and nature, with views of the Manchester skyline, the woodlands of Kersal Dale and the shimmering River Irwell. As you walk along the cycle paths and footpaths, you will hear the sounds of nature, such as the chirping of birds, the buzzing of insects and the rustling of leaves. You will also encounter ten hectares of wildflower habitat, where you can admire the colourful blooms and the diversity of plants. Some of the flowers you may see include ox-eye daisy, red clover, common knapweed and yellow rattle. This sound walk begins on the left bank of the River Irwell, just past the entrance at Grandstand Avenue. This walk takes approximately 25 - 35 minutes to complete. Please keep to the designated paths and keep dogs under control in the wetlands area, especially during the bird nesting season from mid March to June. Thank you for joining us and have a wonderful day.

Inspired by the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal we have paired Salford / Greater Manchester artists with European artists to create a Sound Walk along the route of the old canal. The canal begins at the River Irwell at Middlewood Locks and then disappears from sight until near Agecroft Cemetery.