Just off Chester Road, overlooked by the tower cranes and skyscrapers of Manchester's never-ending building boom, there's a little corner of the city that's steeped in history.
14.02.2022 - 16:13 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The campaign to save Ryebank Fields has been bubbling along in Chorlton for some time now, with many different community groups campaigning in their own way to save the fields.
One campaign, by Chorlton resident Jay Clarke, is currently free to view at the Manchester Open exhibition at Home MCR and brings together the importance of nature, art and dogs.
Jay is an amateur photographer who specialises in capturing images of nature.
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However, during the first lockdown she swapped trees for dogs and created ‘the dogs of Ryebank Fields’, a collage showing the pooches of the parkland.
Jay explained to the Manchester Evening News that she started photographing dogs during the first lockdown to show just how many people use the fields.
She said: “I’m just a local woman who enjoys photography, I just take photographs on my phone.
“I got involved at Ryebank Fields and they said 'would you take photographs for us', so I ended doing all sorts of things with photographs.
“One of the things I did, was when the pandemic broke, Ryebank Fields is literally on my doorstep and I was there everyday anyway.
“It was a difficult time and I would just say hello to dog walkers and there’s a few cats on there as well, and it just jumped into my mind to take photos of the dogs and bring attention and awareness to the campaign to save the fields.
“As we stepped further into the pandemic, I noticed the fields were getting more and more used, more and more dog owners and there’s this real sense of community on there.
“People agreed and allowed me to use their images and there I stopped when I got to 144 as it is a collage of
Just off Chester Road, overlooked by the tower cranes and skyscrapers of Manchester's never-ending building boom, there's a little corner of the city that's steeped in history.
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