Glenn Boulter, Samantha Allan

The Broughton-in-Furness Sound Tour

Portable media players and printed map

(Dimensions variable )

Pick up a map and a media player and explore the industrial heritage of a rural market town as re-imagined by its current inhabitants

location:

The Bus Shelter
The Square, Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA20 6HZ

dates:

Saturdays and Sundays throughout.10am - 6pm (last admission at 5.30pm)

OS grid ref:

SD 212 876

getting out there:

Parking is free in the square
X7 and 511 buses stop in Broughton
Foxfield station is a 2km walk away

The Broughton-in-Furness Sound Tour aims to turn a small West Cumbrian market town and the surrounding landscape into an open-air museum. Headsets and maps will be hired out free of charge from the town's disused bus shelter. Visitors and residents will be guided around the town by a series of 'sonic events' that relate to specific points on the map, spanning 500 years of local history. The theme of the tour is 'Rural Industries Past and Present' and the content will be devised and recorded with the help of local residents and community groups whose deep familiarity with the area will uncover seldom-heard and long forgotten events.

The tour will also seek to examine the town's relationship with nearby Millom. Through participatory workshops at Millom Folk Museum and St James Primary School, recordings are being made exploring the important role that Millom's Iron Ore Industry has played in Broughton's heritage.

Follow the tour's progress at: broughtonsoundtour.blogspot.com

Artist's website: broughtonsoundtour.blogspot.com

Thanks to: Copeland Borough Council
St James' Catholic Primary School, Millom