On Thursdays Manchester City Art Gallery is open until 9 o’clock in the evening. So last Thursday I finished work a little early and we caught a train into Manchester (making sure we were on board before 4 o’clock when cheap day returns aren’t valid on the wonderful comfortable modern trains (sic) run by Northern Rail). We had a look round the shops for a short while and then stopped for a brew in the “Proper Tea” tea shop across from Manchester Cathedral.

Afterwards we made our way over to the Art Gallery via the Arndale and Piccadilly.

The main exhibition showing at the Gallery, covering most of two floors in the modern extension is titled The Sensory War 1914-2014

This major group exhibition marking the Centenary of the First World War explores how artists have communicated the impact of military conflict on the body, mind, environment and…