HUNDREDS of people have queued to get the chance to see a remarkable collection of paintings.
Eric Tucker painted hundreds of pictures and completed thousands of drawings in his life.
But he never exhibited them and only his closest family knew of his talent.
This weekend, for the first time members of the public got to see the work at his Padgate home.
And the appetite has been extraordinary with people lining King George Crescent to see the art.
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When Eric died at the age of 86 in July this year, his family decided to exhibit the work.
They left his front room as it was when he lived there and turned the rest of the house into an art gallery for the weekend.
It was in the 1950s that Eric, an ‘ordinary working class guy’ in his 20s, began painting and would regularly visit art galleries in Manchester and Liverpool.
Never married and never having children, he had no formal training in art and never exhibited or sold his work.
As part of the exhibition, the front room of Eric’s home where he created these countless artworks has been left as it was when he died.
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