RESIDENTS at two care homes in Chester hosted memory fairs to raise awareness of dementia as part of Dementia Awareness Week.

The events raised more than £1,000 for the Alzheimer’s Society and the Residents’ Comforts Fund.

Each event included memory walls, displaying photographs from the past for everybody to enjoy.

Highlights included the sharing of wartime and VE Day experiences at Florence Grogan House in Blacon, where residents and guests watched a slideshow presentation from Chester Library. The celebration of the 1940s enabled residents to talk to members of the local community and local historians about their memories of Chester in ‘the good old days’.

Guests and residents also sampled some wartime recipes and VE Day party foods.

Taster sessions were also held at Wealstone in Upton, where the memory fair theme was ‘Rations and Recipes in the 1940s’.

Guests talked about what it was like to live on rations, discussed recipes and explored displays of old kitchenware, replica posters, tinned food and sweets.