CHILDREN are working with older people on a unique art project about memories of their home town.

Durham County Cricket Club’s Emirates Riverside ground will be among the landmarks to feature in a series of glass “postcards of the past” about Chester-le-Street.

The £6,000 artwork of ten A4-sized ‘postcards’ is being created by children from Cestria Primary School.

They have been working with residents at The Elms, a new £6.5m sheltered accommodation complex, built by local housing association Cestria.

Youngsters have been listening to and interpreting their memories and thoughts about the area and what it means to them.

They have created their own impressions of Lumley Castle, the imposing Chester Burn viaduct which dominates the Market Place, their school and The Elms to create their designs for the ‘postcards’.

Lewis Rimington, from Cestria, said: “It’s really caught the children’s imagination and they have started to draw their designs featuring these landmarks and others.”