VIDEO & 360 PHOTO: Pete McKee builds seaside town and council estate to host his biggest art exhibition

By The Newsroom
Published 13th May 2016, 19:30 BST
Updated 13th May 2016, 20:46 BST
Pete McKee's 6 Weeks To Eternity exhibition at Magna Science MuseumPete McKee's 6 Weeks To Eternity exhibition at Magna Science Museum
Pete McKee's 6 Weeks To Eternity exhibition at Magna Science Museum
Yorkshire artist Pete McKee has built a replica seaside town and recreated the estate where he grew up - to host a two day display of his latest nostalgia paintings.

His 6 Weeks to Eternity exhibition - this weekend only - is a celebration of the school summer holidays as life was in the 1970s.

It even features a full size helter skelter, which visitors can have a go on - £1 a ride - there's a fortune teller, plus a family caravan and deckchairs.

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There's also summer holiday photo memories submitted by 500 people, who sent him their pictures after a call out on social media.

360 PHOTO: Take a look around the exhibition as Sheffield artist Pete McKee looks on at the seaside town he's created complete with a helter skelter - CLICK HEREThe other half of the exhibition - at the Magna Science Museum in Rotherham, Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15 - includes a mock up of the street where he grew up, including his former family sitting room, showing intros of old TV shows like Worzel Gummidge, Little House On The Prairie and The Pink Panther Show.

In the street outside there's a some Chopper bikes where kids are playing Evel Knievel, with a makeshift ramp to jump over two boys lying down

He's also recreated his boyhood bedroom, complete with Debbie Harry and Bowie posters on the wall, with him fast asleep as the afternoon sun breaks through his curtains on the Batemoor estate where he grew up, in Sheffield.