A FIRST World War exhibition is to be staged in Blackburn to mark the end of a year-long Heritage Lottery-funded project.

The display will feature work created during the ‘Narratives of Transformation, their story: our story,’ scheme, which looks at how the war changed the lives of people both on and off the battlefields.

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It will be held at Blackburn College and is the culmination of the £10,000 lottery project.

The project was launched in 2014 as a collaboration between University Centre at Blackburn College and Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery.

Students studying creative arts disciplines and English language and literature took part in a series of workshops with international artist Paddy Hartley, curators from Blackburn Museum and college staff.

Artefacts and existing stories from people were used as a starting point and students created garments, textile pieces, poems, stories, art and embroidery.

The exhibition will run at the University Centre at Blackburn College for a week.

A selection of the work will then be on display at Blackburn Museum from Saturday, December 12.

Included in the exhibition is a piece by a student who used her Indian heritage as a focal point.

The instillation was inspired by the different forms of turban folding and also from her experience working alongside Paddy Hartley.

Another exhibition feature is a ‘sea of poppies’ inspired by the ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ at the Tower of London.