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Sunderland Literature & CREATIVE WRITING <strong>Festival</strong> 2016<br />
Also at this years festival<br />
Mackem Maps<br />
Display<br />
City Library and Arts Centre,<br />
Saturday 1 – Monday 31 October<br />
Artist Ian Potts has been asking people to<br />
draw their own map of Sunderland for over<br />
30 years, created in workshops by students,<br />
community groups and general public of all<br />
ages and abilities. They are personalised<br />
memory maps displaying all the charm and<br />
inconsistencies of personal accounts<br />
coupled with graphology and pictograms<br />
and are on display throughout October 2016.<br />
Cyril Lomax<br />
Exhibition<br />
Washington Old Hall, Open 11am – 3pm<br />
Entrance fees applicable<br />
Reverend Canon Cyril Lomax was Rector of<br />
Holy Trinity Church in Washington, Tyne<br />
and Wear, from 1899 to 1946. He went on<br />
to serve as Chaplain to the 8th Battalion,<br />
Durham Light Infantry, in World War I. Cyril,<br />
who was an accomplished artist and prolific<br />
letter writer, saw the devastation during the<br />
Battle of the Somme and described the<br />
reality of life in the trenches within his<br />
letters and diary. Illustrated with intricate<br />
sketches showing humour, the mundane<br />
and the dreadfulness of war, they are on<br />
display in this exhibition. A big character in<br />
Washington Village, he played an active part<br />
in saving Washington Old Hall in the 1930s<br />
and without his and others’ hard work,<br />
Washington Old Hall would not be<br />
celebrating its 60th anniversary with the<br />
National Trust this October.<br />
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