This year the 2023 Be Proud Awards were held at the Midland Hotel celebrating the best of Manchester's many volunteers and local advocates.
13.02.2023 - 20:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Heart-warming messages left out for refuse collectors who worked through the Covid pandemic and national lockdowns are due to go on display at a museum exhibition.
More than 30 pictures and notes were collected and kept by bin crews in Bury. Many were drawn by children and attached to wheelie bins left outside homes on collection days as a touching thank you to the frontline workers.
"You are my heroes," says one youngster on a handwritten note accompanied by a drawing of a rainbow and a love heart. Another note including dozens of love hearts exclaims 'not all heroes wear capes...thank you'.
Council bosses in Bury say the collection will form part of a summer exhibition being developed by Bury Art Museum to tell the story of Covid and lockdowns across the town. The pictures and notes were all drawn and written by residents in Bury and left on wheelie bins during the first lockdown of 2020.
At the time, the Manchester Evening News reported on the dozens of personal messages being left out for bin crews to show appreciation for their hard work during the coronavirus outbreak.
The pictures and notes were donated to the museum by binman Paul Lindsey who, along with his wagon colleagues Mick Wilkinson and Dave Edwards, were touched by the many expressions of thanks shown to them.
The museum's exhibition is also set to showcase official Government Covid literature of the time and other artefacts of the pandemic.
Donna Ball, executive director of operations at Bury council, said: "Our front line operational staff are out in all weathers at all times: gritting our roads, emptying our bins, digging our graves, cleaning our streets.
"The list is endless and they are often overlooked in the public service arena for messages of
This year the 2023 Be Proud Awards were held at the Midland Hotel celebrating the best of Manchester's many volunteers and local advocates.
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