People have dressed as characters in an LS Lowry painting to recreate a scene he captured in 1938 ... his depictions of working-class life in the industrial parts of northern England.

The oil painting of the Ulverston scene was consigned for sale by the family of Graeme Bentham, who was gifted it by Lowry together with a number of other works. Mr Bentham, from Ashton-under-Lyne ...

Get them to sketch images from these industrial areas and working landscapes. Choose appropriate colour schemes, using Lowry ... painting themselves, family, friends and neighbours into a crowd ...