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Open Wednesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm 184/186 Gwydir Street, Cambridge, CB1 2LW

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Traits and Traces: A Leach Family Legacy with Shelley Lockwood

Day & time
Wed 30th April 2025, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Cost
£10 (£12 with donation)
Venue
Studio Space at David Parr House
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Based in City Road Cambridge, Frederick R.Leach ran an important decorative arts company during the heyday of the Arts and Crafts Movement. This talk explores the life and impact of Leach, who was David Parr's employer and looks at the creative legacy of the Leach family, looking at some of the marks they made in Cambridge and beyond over four generations.

Shelley Lockwood was a key member of the team that first developed the David Parr House, and author of Frederick Leach: A Cambridge Artworkman and His Firm published by Casita Press for David Parr House.

This talk is presented in honour of Ric Leach (1937–2025), craftsman and great-grandson of Victorian master artworkman F.R. Leach.

Dr Shelley Lockwood is a local and oral historian. She has lived and worked in Cambridge for over 30 years. Her work in local history includes managing the successful transfer and expansion of the Capturing Cambridge project (www.capturingcambridge.org) from Mill Road to the Museum of Cambridge and many aspects of the Life and Art in a Worker's House project which saw the conserving and opening to the public of David Parr House in 2019. In 2022, the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History recognised her book about Frederick Leach as an outstanding contribution to local history.

All workshop proceeds go towards maintaining David Parr House – thank you for your support.

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Traits and Traces: A Leach Family Legacy with Shelley Lockwood
Thu 1st May, 6.30pm-8.30pm
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