How does creativity help connect fragmented places with their past and look to a dynamic shared future, where transformation happens with us, not to us?

The Lost World of Mayfield shows treasures from the transformed if the city including the Mayfield Pattern Book, Graham’s Dye Recipe Book and the Mayfield Grit Walk story cards which uncover the history of Thomas Hoyle and Sons Calico Printing Works and the dwellings and bathhouse which served the residents and workers following its demise.

On in the Exhibition Hall and First Floor Reading Room until the end of June 2026, and then continuing in the First Floor Reading Room