Posts by Wayne Hemingway

Creative Energy

Published in

2008, Back Issues
  It is not an impossible ask. This generation can be exalted, remembered and leave an impact as epoch-making as the Victorians’ with their Industrial Revolution, which lifted millions of…

Belonging and Boundaries

Published in

2007, Back Issues
Wherever we go there are boundaries, but we have to keep thinking, we have to keep changing, keep asking if these boundaries are right for us.   Out-of-town shopping centres…

Waterside Views

Published in

2007, Back Issues
I have always been drawn to the water. I was conceived in room 16 of the art deco Midland Hotel overlooking Morecambe Bay and spent the first part of my…

Free Range Kids

Published in

2007, Back Issues
  Ever since I was at John Prescott’s Urban Summit at Brindley Place, Birmingham in late 2002, and was collected by my wife and youngest lad on our way up…

Designed To Last

Published in

2007, Back Issues
Money was short but you wouldn’t have thought so from the way we all looked. My mum and nan always looked wonderfully cool in their printed summer dresses, all made…

Wayne’s Wife MBE

Published in

2007, Back Issues

What you may not have heard (unless you come from her birth town where banners outside newsagents declared ‘Local lass awarded MBE’) is that my wife of 23 years, my design and business partner of 25 years, the always lovely Gerardine Hemingway was also awarded an MBE.