Retirement village residents plan photographic exhibition

Published on 21 February 2022

Residents from OneCare's The Manor Gardens Retirement Village are leading a community art project with a difference.

As part of the City of Launceston's ABCDE Learning Site project, the facility's residents association is seeking help from the broader Launceston community to create a photographic exhibition exploring the history of Kings Meadows.

The exhibition will be displayed at The Manor's Bruce Davison Centre, the facility's communal hall and regular meeting place. The Manor Gardens Residents Association President Steve Coull said the residents had chosen "It's about time" as the title of the exhibition.

"Recently we had the Bruce Davison Centre repainted and the thought among the residents was that we'd put a call out to the Launceston community for old photos of Kings Meadows and nearby areas to put on display," Mr Coull said.

"We thought it would be a lovely idea to bring people together through an exhibition of old photographs of the suburb from different points in the past.

"There are lots of older people in the Kings Meadows area and we hope they'll able to visit and view the photos and remember where they were and what they were doing in years past, and be able to share those memories with family and friends."

Launceston Mayor Albert van Zetten congratulated the residents on their project.

"Community initiatives like this are what the City of Launceston's Learning Site project is all about — a grass-roots approach, using the community's own ideas and passion," Mayor van Zetten said.

"I'm looking forward to see the outcomes of the exhibition, and hope people from across Launceston will dig into their archives and find photographs of Kings Meadows that can be displayed."