Special Closing Event For ‘A Measure of Care’ Exhibition - The Harris

Centred round a ledger written in the 1800s the artists returned it to the house it was first written. They worked with local farmers, birders, residents, ornithologists, conservationists and historians asking them to reflect on the words. The author, John Weld was a Victorian landowner, antiquarian and amateur painter and lived in Leagram Hall in the Forest of Bowland. In the Ledger, he introduces ‘a list of birds observed or taken in the neighbourhood of Leagram within a radius of 4 to 5 miles from the hall’. A detailed set of observations relating to 112 bird species over a fifty-year period from 1836 until his death.

In partnership with In Certain Places.