Runcorn pair star in exhibition

7:40am Monday 1st December 2008

TWO Runcorn residents are set to feature alongside prominent figures from the world of sport, business and the arts in a spectacular photo exhibition in Liverpool.

Joe Smith, aged 83, will join fellow Runcorn resident Nora Rimmer in The Riverside Housing Group’s 80th anniversary exhibition at the city’s Anglican Cathedral.

Their photo portraits will appear alongside the likes of Alan Bleasdale, Mike McCartney and the chief of Merseyside Police, Bernard Hogan-Howe.

The ‘Diverse City’ exhibition, which runs until December 1, is the last in a series of arts projects led by The Riverside Group to celebrate its 80th birthday.

It will also be on show at City Exchange, Old Hall Street, from December 4-18.

Hugh Owen, of The Riverside Group, said: “When we started out in 1928 as Liverpool Improved Houses, the city was in decline, blighted by slums. Over the past 80 years we have been working hard to transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods. Now Liverpool is taking centre stage as European Capital of Culture.

“The exhibition looks at the transformation of Liverpool through the experiences of people who were born and bred in the city and have moved away, or those who have come to the city to change their lives and are contributing to this revitalisation.”