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Platt Hall is home to a collection of over 100,000 buttons, collected by husband and wife Alan and Gillian Meredith over more than thirty years.
My fascination with buttons started in 1968 after I re-discovered some buttons that my grandmother had given me as a child. I know from my own grandchildren that they get huge pleasure from collecting things like buttons, and many of us have fond memories of rifling though our mother’s button boxes.” Many of us do indeed have memories of playing with family button boxes, as you can see in the conversation from our Collections Chat on Thursday 27 May 2021.
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Here's a tiny selection from the collection. You can see more on the Manchester Art Gallery website collections search.
