With a trademark dog in every picture, Stephen `Broady' Broadhurst is definitely making a name for himself as a depicter of the rapidly disappearing old Salford. Following his first exhibition at the Langworthy Cornerstone earlier this year (see here), due to popular demand, he has a second show, Follow That Dream.
There's over seventy pictures on show, and with prices usually between £35 and £45, many have already been sold, despite the exhibition only starting less than two weeks ago.
Using pencils and coloured pencils, Broady's scenes illustrate everything from old Chapel Street, to Ward and Goldstone's, to rag and bone men, women hanging the washing out, Agecroft miners and kids playing in derelict streets. A nice touch is also the little personal notes that the artist writes about each drawing...
"Salford had loads of crofts when I was a boy" Broady writes about his picture Salford Playground (wagging it) "They were our adventure playgrounds. Playing in the old dumped cars. Making dens, building bonfires...we were always full of cuts and we went home dirty!"
Football also features large in the exhibition, with be-scarfed kids, dads and granddads going to see City and United, and there even some portraits of United legends Beckham, Stiles and Busby, and, er, Memphis.
The exhibition runs upstairs and in the foyer of the Langworthy Cornerstone until the end of November
Follow That Dream
Langworthy Cornerstone
until end November
For details of opening times see the Cornerstone website – click here
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