Above: Artist Sharon Snaylam with the painting made by Saltaire
Primary School, Year Five and (below) some of the sketches made by
pupils on which it was based.
Hirst Wood
Regeneration Group
sponsored this artwork
as part of their canal
bicentenary project
funded by Tesco
Bags of Help
Above: Cllr Geoff Reid,
Lord Mayor of Bradford
unveils the painting
with help from Junior
Mayor.
Left: the Lord Mayor,
Mayoress, Junior Mayor
and Saltaire Primary
School Head, Mrs Sally
Stoker, admire the
painting.
Right: the unveiling
party with some
members of HWRG
“A very welcoming, talented school and a community group
who know what they are doing!”
Cllr Geoff Reid, Lord Mayor of Bradford
Year Five’s painting brings the
story of the canal to life
Year Five of Saltaire Primary School have been using the bicentenary
of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal to improve their knowledge of
history, nature, their local community, work and art.
And one of the results is a brilliant piece of artwork which is going to
be displayed at Hirst Lock in October.
With local artist Sharon Snaylam, the pupils visited Bingley Five Rise
Locks to see how the canal fitted into the landscape and to make
sketches.
They then had a visit by historian Liz McIvor, who made the
outstanding TV series about the history of canals, and she had the
pupils spellbound with stories of just what it was like for families
living and working on the canal in its early days.
Finally the children turned their sketches into a design and painted it
ready for when the Kennett comes through Hirst Wood on 16 October,
when the school choir will also be performing a special canal song
written just for the occasion.
The whole school met in the school hall along with parents and
members of Hirst Wood Regeneration Group, to see Bradford Lord
Mayor, Cllr Geoff Reid, unveil the painting.
