When my dad worked in the Walker Art Gallery, he managed to get a dozen or so Gerard Gardens residents into those council buildings as porters or cleaners. There's a big concertina type factory door at the top of Mill Lane which goes into the side of the Art Gallery where the massive paintings were delivered or after restoration.



The bloke who was my dad's boss when he first started in 1967 was George Kirby and he used to park his Reliant just there. I would be taken around the unseen parts of the art gallery, around the back of that big tapestry in the main foyer and up in the workers 'mess' - great times. Also they'd bring all the John Moore's exhibition stuff up in the lift to the back galleries for evening shows and the lift is disguised into one of the walls upstairs with a large painting hanging over it.