National media descend on FeelCreative!

It's been a busy week at FeelCreative's gallery in Didsbury, with the national media descending on this normally quiet corner of Manchester for live TV broadcasts, radio interviews and news reports.

Last week saw the gallery launch an exclusive exhibition by Anne Kirkbride, better known as Deirdre Barlow from Coronation Street.

The exhibition immediately attracted the attention of the local papers, with the Manchester Evening News devoting half of it's front page to a picture of Anne, and a full page write-up inside.

But that was nothing compared with the 24 hours that followed.

We had to open at 5.30am on Wednesday to allow the GMTV cameras inside to do an exclusive live feature.

This culminated with an interview with Anne on ITV, broadcast live from the gallery at 8.30am.

Literally seconds before that went on air, she had also found time to do a live radio interview with BBC Radio Manchester.

And later that day, Granada Reports arrived to film a news piece.

If that wasn't enough, the national media were now featuring the story, with The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Telegraph all devoting large articles to the exhibition.

It's been an amazing week of non-stop publicity, with the exhibition attracting far more attention than even we ever thought it would.

We've had customers driving from far and wide to see Anne's work, and the stream of visitors hasn't died down yet.

It just goes to show what a popular and much loved figure Anne - and Deirdre - is.