tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655013088208710892024-03-19T03:22:23.271+00:00Phil Beardnotes on the arts and visual culturePhil Beardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075686435889440881noreply@blogger.comBlogger1000125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65501308820871089.post-12660052090745128512024-03-11T16:08:00.000+00:002024-03-11T16:08:12.537+00:00Lilian Rowles (1893-1953)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrufR5WBigJ2Culb2rAFKHvkiW9qYwmRdTFfU49YeONZbqf0zLjhMsTXUocfBtKdAiJrSyI58tMWZTXHZIiGzNHN3uKQpPpiWVAj8rVbQ1kN6QE_N-H2ZXXzAO-k5-0c7f-mGnW-9MdHJelazH9atKsLDTCUpS2jfGY22aM6nLH-oelQXpA86LS7-v2g/s2276/ab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1733" data-original-width="2276" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrufR5WBigJ2Culb2rAFKHvkiW9qYwmRdTFfU49YeONZbqf0zLjhMsTXUocfBtKdAiJrSyI58tMWZTXHZIiGzNHN3uKQpPpiWVAj8rVbQ1kN6QE_N-H2ZXXzAO-k5-0c7f-mGnW-9MdHJelazH9atKsLDTCUpS2jfGY22aM6nLH-oelQXpA86LS7-v2g/w640-h490/ab.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Stanley Charles Rowles (1887-1979) was a landscape painter, printmaker, professional illustrator, poster designer (follow <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/feversham/51847070952">this link</a> to see his Penzance poster for the Great Western Railway) and educator appointed as Headteacher at the West Bromwich Municipal School of Art where he married one of his students, Lilian Hall. Lilian took her husband’s surname and pursued her own career as a commercial illustrator, specialising in books for children. There’s an account of her life’s work written by a relative at <a href="http://theclothshed.blogspot.com/2010/07/lillian-rowles.html">theclothshed blog</a>. Her proficiency in drawing children can be seen in her advertising artwork for Hovis Bread in the 1920’s that exploit the visual power of a silhouette suggesting some awareness of the work of contemporary illustrators like Coles Phillips. When <i>The Children’s Hour </i>was published in the 1940s Lilian was credited as both author and illustrator. The presence of a radio on the cover signalled its relationship with the BBC programme of the same name and played its part in evoking a cosy vision of childhood reinforced by the wonders of modern technology. The internal illustrations are saved from banality by some well observed and lively figure drawing and an educated eye for the untidiness of childhood hair. Not a hint of dissension to be noted in these exceptionally well behaved children. The format of the book is very much the same as the example shown on theclothshed blogspot. For the most part Lilian’s work is featured alongside other illustrators in compendium volumes - opportunities to publish her own books were few and far between. It’s not that unlikely that her career was persistently disrupted by the arrival of children and she never had the chance to fully develop her potential. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLcVABusuqthYMs0E3MwXZtC-swKK8Jx2_-0wpM5VDyv4FC0ptVOy2tBUvq9Pmmjr5KP3KFvXzbhvtD5TxRRcq5jLPtw5jQz4UT7KOLv7Gx4-Iwhry9uAQTt7dO0ew4jldokouZg_XyZfFHtc6FBJ-Ek1eMEw4hvwnsm6fcFpd2gTUMq0OrZngB2Xd0Q/s2301/ac.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2301" data-original-width="1709" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLcVABusuqthYMs0E3MwXZtC-swKK8Jx2_-0wpM5VDyv4FC0ptVOy2tBUvq9Pmmjr5KP3KFvXzbhvtD5TxRRcq5jLPtw5jQz4UT7KOLv7Gx4-Iwhry9uAQTt7dO0ew4jldokouZg_XyZfFHtc6FBJ-Ek1eMEw4hvwnsm6fcFpd2gTUMq0OrZngB2Xd0Q/w478-h640/ac.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbTOQDlJ2LTWrk41IKaijV7xNn_gtqZSg3RSRsMD1JgiPhRbUHKG5D0u9VyJdTMSlGk0jZULoJYSkwRb6kmM9Hgob9zWremtHSXW0R5UKrWoiRNVvgE6aXAsDTxhSVeTkkt5ennNyerRQY5fm4ao6ci1sJkv6QLmYsTokOS9c4Nk3B56cdrq7L0srLZg/s4975/ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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When national survival is at stake everything must make a contribution to the war effort. Collective values come into play as even the most socially exclusive artists and designers strive to make a difference - nobody wants to be accused of lacking in patriotism. There’s a change of tone from hauteur to something more demotic - extravagance is no longer acceptable while raising public morale is a new priority. Working under this new set of constraints the fashion industry falls back upon formal simplicity, classic elegance and a colour palette that’s light, bright and uplifting. Textile designers responded with fabric prints devised around patriotic messages and texts displayed in jaunty settings. Other nations were involved including a strong collection of kimono prints from Japan - more bellicose in their imagery but more refined in their visual language.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhskDZPO7Jus27UWICbCCb2lcp96sYfvPAM1rzVWzcYcbt54C_KsOLfD_fYZrq3LpKefzi2fI-OkiU8CNt6SONholu2c4J3J23jG74y3v9SBJfVJXeUx9Ijgx1T9E-2IxcteDWLzWk5C5oS3vQurap4fwXfyZOsFwKpxsNLrOyDHgmxF2lrI-ofAYj55g/s2835/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="2835" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhskDZPO7Jus27UWICbCCb2lcp96sYfvPAM1rzVWzcYcbt54C_KsOLfD_fYZrq3LpKefzi2fI-OkiU8CNt6SONholu2c4J3J23jG74y3v9SBJfVJXeUx9Ijgx1T9E-2IxcteDWLzWk5C5oS3vQurap4fwXfyZOsFwKpxsNLrOyDHgmxF2lrI-ofAYj55g/w640-h426/b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2362" data-original-width="2362" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKf_G9ql6YjNSS3pguUMdOrc1ye-831_XGs8gY2pYKE60-76bbEVRApN5mCGZDndgeJ1iX3GS-c6GwqURXuWURYBtz7osjUwaPwOa4FVDWyOn_jFR7He-RhL7ZR1__77BkpJWcR4XvNwVNSe9r24WWBoOqtJM6osdBRhcDb0vq0c4t6nOGeaiZ4_LJew/w640-h640/a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">An intriguing studio portrait of a group of serious minded young women, on the reverse is a pencilled date of January 1894. They are soberly dressed with padded shoulders and smocking to the fore and have the appearance of educated middle class women but there are no obvious clues as to the reason for their gathering. Some look out of the photo with impressive self-assurance, others look more diffident or apprehensive. Perhaps it was a social event - a reunion of a sort - but there’s no evidence of frivolity. The studio responsible was located in Neuwied, a small town on the banks of the Rhine near Koblenz. Germany in 1894 was a rapidly expanding industrial and military power and it may be no more than a coincidence but the nation’s first major group to campaign for the rights of women, the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine (BDF) was founded in March of 1894. Needless to say, it ceased to exist in 1933.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTEcdxMC-A4MPxkMP1HrUgUHpjmQMp0OeKKXDiNmLjnV0K6p2e0ijZvQsftx9aUcBO2VBuS-uUrGQ9anje8M-_T12baLWe7plF9Ywz1j-QAVZMZutJ-dbeRIufOBPAuccXjgbc6ieu6xhxrFwNZQIrld_40GIKzV1lDIFUqjbAPxv2z5FwHzX8EnTMJA/s1552/ab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1552" data-original-width="1552" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTEcdxMC-A4MPxkMP1HrUgUHpjmQMp0OeKKXDiNmLjnV0K6p2e0ijZvQsftx9aUcBO2VBuS-uUrGQ9anje8M-_T12baLWe7plF9Ywz1j-QAVZMZutJ-dbeRIufOBPAuccXjgbc6ieu6xhxrFwNZQIrld_40GIKzV1lDIFUqjbAPxv2z5FwHzX8EnTMJA/w640-h640/ab.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqRM2l2gl6O0JyQ6TLztXG5FltL4MSf9tf-GO8brXXOn4KGO5KNGc3hKOee8RBUtken2Ph1QUQ9XJTi8LPX2c4o-PTKS-a03_RtIBP02qVshUl8kCdw5sYz1gC0mBBlgKK-DDDskSiqpbaKa4YzdD9UtN2JcP64hngUohI5SoKNB2PZkE5GI53wjadfA/s1106/ac.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1106" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqRM2l2gl6O0JyQ6TLztXG5FltL4MSf9tf-GO8brXXOn4KGO5KNGc3hKOee8RBUtken2Ph1QUQ9XJTi8LPX2c4o-PTKS-a03_RtIBP02qVshUl8kCdw5sYz1gC0mBBlgKK-DDDskSiqpbaKa4YzdD9UtN2JcP64hngUohI5SoKNB2PZkE5GI53wjadfA/w640-h640/ac.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgws3mE6k1SOKxnFhSyCu0FKRx791bd8sSxXyJjJXrqv2Ja1ZqLk5hbi5dgbFEVvw1sDgoT1gzZNEPqHR7t2j7hMezIvalwNW_I-dVHZ1pgsHWtCMZ5rvU7mDlciP2ssTGAoGd0c-8lnFV6OEif8ud0kxjK7KgUv6h7ks3qGRmoB0HFnvqqHoHp5fghVg/s1837/ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1837" data-original-width="1837" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgws3mE6k1SOKxnFhSyCu0FKRx791bd8sSxXyJjJXrqv2Ja1ZqLk5hbi5dgbFEVvw1sDgoT1gzZNEPqHR7t2j7hMezIvalwNW_I-dVHZ1pgsHWtCMZ5rvU7mDlciP2ssTGAoGd0c-8lnFV6OEif8ud0kxjK7KgUv6h7ks3qGRmoB0HFnvqqHoHp5fghVg/w640-h640/ad.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaY5e1ipS5lBOhbw04y4NWeIBveD3kq8jIOgt5Xq0G7HjsZmuGLqbblVCXzo0_i_TEnNd_W-f2UmCToEBAKYQcXu8wCIKNNf7UVvkxvZosSI5dFgZbmapg4BuWEF9FO3VxAaA-66XKLw-LquGt9yWFfTJNrDkvNzc_9CiV5e_ejbAi5wKgaNq3P-6SA/s2362/ae.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2362" data-original-width="2362" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaY5e1ipS5lBOhbw04y4NWeIBveD3kq8jIOgt5Xq0G7HjsZmuGLqbblVCXzo0_i_TEnNd_W-f2UmCToEBAKYQcXu8wCIKNNf7UVvkxvZosSI5dFgZbmapg4BuWEF9FO3VxAaA-66XKLw-LquGt9yWFfTJNrDkvNzc_9CiV5e_ejbAi5wKgaNq3P-6SA/w640-h640/ae.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Phil Beardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075686435889440881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65501308820871089.post-11590845418026308882024-01-26T14:40:00.000+00:002024-01-26T14:40:17.823+00:00School Bullies at Work<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZF2dZBtgZh4rX0TSwLPgzu4D5k_Gtvs3h4Iu1eTHKpui39EoLIcKBpMP8w4Sz8salfW3MpMnPBDjDwxviZdJtOilEggAUDJuqvt4i8lraNOJmYrBVJcb8YVOl-pQ_nrOOQ3YuaG_rN7oI09_RXqq_4d6fkmcypheWFxmI9F9MeV7s0IKS7qfw-_yLEA/s2172/ruffians.01%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1386" data-original-width="2172" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZF2dZBtgZh4rX0TSwLPgzu4D5k_Gtvs3h4Iu1eTHKpui39EoLIcKBpMP8w4Sz8salfW3MpMnPBDjDwxviZdJtOilEggAUDJuqvt4i8lraNOJmYrBVJcb8YVOl-pQ_nrOOQ3YuaG_rN7oI09_RXqq_4d6fkmcypheWFxmI9F9MeV7s0IKS7qfw-_yLEA/w640-h410/ruffians.01%20copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A series of 6 postcards sent over about 10 days in May 1907 from a mother in Witheridge, Devon to her schoolboy son who was staying away from home with his grandmother in Twickenham. The cards form a sequence and mother’s messages display an unusual preoccupation with playground violence. She has inscribed some odd captions on the illustrations but she really gets stuck-in on the reverse declaring to young Master Maunder (known as Vennie):</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">When you come home you will feel so strong that you will want to fight all the boys at school …</span></i></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Will you tell the other boys to scram?</span></i></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">The bobby has got one of the boys - how would you like to be one of them …</span></i></p></blockquote><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">In other news from home:</span><i></i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Percy went up to Mrs. Cheyney’s and brought home 2 little birds in a nest - Annie took them back again because the poor little things would die without the mother to feed them …</span></i></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Daddy is very busy making a meat-safe for me today in the play room - he cannot make out why you’re not homesick …</span></i></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">It has rained all day …</span></i></p></blockquote><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Witheridge is a North Devon village where</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">a chain of West Country butchers (Lloyd Maunder) was founded</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">in the 1870s - the business was later managed by Percy (who brought home a bird’s nest) and Venn Maunder (recipient of the postcards).</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">It continues to trade in the present day.</span></span></p><p>
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An unspoken acceptance of the playground as war zone meant that hierarchies of status were determined by shows of aggression and brute force. Today’s high-functioning school bullies are equally adept in the dark arts of psychological violence - their repertoire of dirty tricks vastly extended by the arrival of social media. At some future date, they and their colleagues will be serving in the Cabinet, replacing the present incumbents whose vindictive incompetence may be regarded as trivial compared with their successors.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7W74BH-sDKcSvrGgQua-Kivwl9QEyKnmCdFEBe2I1Jj-aWq8MZ04F2Hqii9viH9KagTeMPlWVM8pdeaWc7qnYsLPWukTGA7T0D1GCqfJ14TaWqroWh_HwQYA03J_3LDioCnBz0KQSwq-Z2JCXPUqTEKfSnftyJVtYiMa-iwonOm41Jlby_vxocCuTaw/s2173/ruffians.03%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1394" data-original-width="2173" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7W74BH-sDKcSvrGgQua-Kivwl9QEyKnmCdFEBe2I1Jj-aWq8MZ04F2Hqii9viH9KagTeMPlWVM8pdeaWc7qnYsLPWukTGA7T0D1GCqfJ14TaWqroWh_HwQYA03J_3LDioCnBz0KQSwq-Z2JCXPUqTEKfSnftyJVtYiMa-iwonOm41Jlby_vxocCuTaw/w640-h412/ruffians.03%20copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We begin the annual round up with less familiar views of London’s Tower Bridge followed by a pair of medieval-themed examples from Germany (Bonn and Berlin). The double-decker arched viaduct at makes a splendid sight. A pair of bucolic scenes from the Peak District (Monsal Dale and Hathersage) follow - I’ve a soft spot for Hathersage having first seen it from the top deck front seat of a Sheffield City bus in 1978 that had just made a spectacular winding descent from the viewpoint known as Surprise View that very much lives up to its name. Next is a distant view of Saltash and the river Tamar followed by much steelwork on a single span railway bridge in Costa Rica. There are more rail bridges from Riga, Jutland, Porto, Florida and Texas.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge63Ogb8s36nTWy7kOyq72ZhJ1rj05zWTxJmtSHrF9VZU61KjOeWU1KwkzIkf3wXTbiSb-fWS8EJua_LdSpoUk8TBovYFTDObopdKd1EP8sz1zOeRkCFQT3FJT7ujzbssWQiO4Z8tlYmxtxyGbnGfWP8CxBJW3SPYvXzZhRl0ywnSHHCj0zjaEcNyE7A/s1629/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1629" data-original-width="1025" height="910" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge63Ogb8s36nTWy7kOyq72ZhJ1rj05zWTxJmtSHrF9VZU61KjOeWU1KwkzIkf3wXTbiSb-fWS8EJua_LdSpoUk8TBovYFTDObopdKd1EP8sz1zOeRkCFQT3FJT7ujzbssWQiO4Z8tlYmxtxyGbnGfWP8CxBJW3SPYvXzZhRl0ywnSHHCj0zjaEcNyE7A/w572-h910/b.jpg" width="572" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsdShZjHF-SmmtOluOFC2tmVJUtz_-XMVQXWbCEuAvnzCSxOgl4DZwpciQQCWz_vNYJwofNf8K-SRg24jEyKseHBFL2Quw3Jj_jGEURpH2kuO-6Ekdt3MwOTU12X9QLEkv7iSD6x4_W3gRAzUzVX16MW_ZzBtt43qbmE7UNA27KGtR7VpXH7Nb22YPvg/s1636/c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s our very own National Theatre of Cruelty, an antiquated forum of futility. On one side the benches are occupied by the defenders of property rights and privilege, drawn from the products of private education and Oxbridge, supported by subaltern recruits from the lower orders attracted by the prospect of personal enrichment and all too happy to identify with the interests of their social superiors. All of which enables them to operate in a culture of impunity. Opposite them is a motley assortment of lost causes including sundry nationalists, an official opposition with a nominal commitment to social justice, minority parties and some empty spaces that the most intransigent of nationalists refuse to occupy. Bewigged courtiers in pantomime costume strut back and forth bearing fundamentally useless objects of veneration without which proceedings cannot go ahead. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2cOgwdcVfANRpMNk1HHyAkd__nm9GwguK331pOO55zn7qhxwoltuSbV-EzXhQEYfpEM9G5mXuf9vFksfOTmJovzEluYiRf3Tw1j1LqYmEcso0JHhAP5vRodx6hcqUE11-DMxmYSH63wwRx37R7yE9tH7Fxx-nu3I6UNAdjZw3uc4zsvqus_tgsNw4Iw/s2211/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1403" data-original-width="2211" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2cOgwdcVfANRpMNk1HHyAkd__nm9GwguK331pOO55zn7qhxwoltuSbV-EzXhQEYfpEM9G5mXuf9vFksfOTmJovzEluYiRf3Tw1j1LqYmEcso0JHhAP5vRodx6hcqUE11-DMxmYSH63wwRx37R7yE9tH7Fxx-nu3I6UNAdjZw3uc4zsvqus_tgsNw4Iw/w640-h406/b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Teams of scribes and record keepers toil away in the orchestra pit while the Remembrancer lurks in the under gallery, poised to intervene should anything arise that is less than favourable to the interests of the City of London. (The Wikipedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Remembrancer">description</a> of this shady character is at such great pains to point out how little influence he has, that you may wonder why he exists at all.) The chamber has been designed to facilitate the exchange of insults and though much time is devoted to this, it’s an offence of the utmost gravity to accuse another member of lying. Otherwise accountability is nugatory, members may attend as little as they wish without sanction and their degree of participation and voting is for them to decide. As a general rule the greater their majority, the poorer the service offered to constituents leaving them well placed to take on additional, often better paid jobs. These tend to be in the legal profession, in business and financial services (in an advisory capacity) or as well rewarded gobshites on GB News. There is no inspectorate of MPs and no requirement to report their activities to constituents.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsu7fvrrjFmiUAwpL-0oFf0MnnL8tznnkdgvc1wsEqmPRf0xe1yukiJgAcQlhvT3MxuKEiAEqLvgbEEJltMqml_TzHTB93C3z_Wt0vHB1h6ABB01ZmYPmr5JC_0XlSMd6zVvzjVUvL5gWIY4nusIF8KVzBvX7vfQ_TBA644Ix3dj7RJcpsazp7HPUP6Q/s3203/c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2034" data-original-width="3203" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsu7fvrrjFmiUAwpL-0oFf0MnnL8tznnkdgvc1wsEqmPRf0xe1yukiJgAcQlhvT3MxuKEiAEqLvgbEEJltMqml_TzHTB93C3z_Wt0vHB1h6ABB01ZmYPmr5JC_0XlSMd6zVvzjVUvL5gWIY4nusIF8KVzBvX7vfQ_TBA644Ix3dj7RJcpsazp7HPUP6Q/w640-h406/c.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Supporters of these anachronisms loudly proclaim that they are what makes Parliament so unique and special while remaining silent on the point that they act as enforcers of the status quo, inhibiting any change that might result in wealth redistribution or rebalance the existing power structure.</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Even the architecture has a part to play - Barry and Pugin’s Gothic Revival extravaganza invokes the England of stately homes, medieval Oxbridge colleges and ancient private schools - a Hogwarts orgy of ornamentation entirely familiar to members who have grown up with it but disconcerting and intimidating to those of more humble origins for whom the message is “this place is not for you”. Every attempt to update facilities and procedures fails in the face of furious opposition and an exorbitant <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/palace-of-westminster-restoration-of-uk-parliament-slips-beyond-next-election/">refurbishment plan</a> is currently stalled while ongoing repairs are costing the taxpayer £2 million a week.</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">There’s an almost irresistible impulse in British public life to employ delay as an avoidance strategy (contaminated blood scandal, Grenfell, Hillsborough, Post Office/Fujitsu IT scandal) so it seems inevitable that Parliament itself should fall victim to institutional procrastination.</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">In the spirit of doing more with less (so often commended by government), a budget solution would be a repurposed fulfilment centre in the Northumbria town of Haltwhistle, the geographic centre of the UK.</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Appleby Parva in Leicestershire is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_points_of_the_United_Kingdom">centre of population</a> in the UK and suggests an alternative location.</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Ancillary services and committee rooms could be housed in site offices and Portakabins which would have the merit of giving parliamentarians a taste of the working conditions enjoyed by millions of their constituents.</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Compulsory annual reports to constituents could include attendance, voting and speaking record, donations received and freebies, income earned from additional occupations, assistance to constituents, links to lobby groups and details of overseas jollies. A little bit of accountability and transparency, could be simply posted online once a year - it’s never going to happen.</span></span></p></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></div>Phil Beardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075686435889440881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65501308820871089.post-83928411272364011722023-11-28T15:14:00.000+00:002023-11-28T15:14:36.891+00:00Walt Disney’s Family Album (1937)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmVnln8DGPIEFcOHRFncrfFRqgEOEt3m1G33wdABCioxPqnUk1Za1zgtUyuvS2GQltZr2GC37hjSDBh65G9DG8AQF0AgSDexLPYOlNbH5NizCl9FGzjQVOz7AkG0PRHIKSMvUMD9uJIOajcAKp1DR_Rw2YNUWoagDGwk1gLaHuK_vc1Ito0l9Lsbq2jg/s3350/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3350" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmVnln8DGPIEFcOHRFncrfFRqgEOEt3m1G33wdABCioxPqnUk1Za1zgtUyuvS2GQltZr2GC37hjSDBh65G9DG8AQF0AgSDexLPYOlNbH5NizCl9FGzjQVOz7AkG0PRHIKSMvUMD9uJIOajcAKp1DR_Rw2YNUWoagDGwk1gLaHuK_vc1Ito0l9Lsbq2jg/w640-h490/a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s impossible to over estimate the extent to which the emotional life of every child exposed to the output of the Disney Corporation is formed and shaped to create an insatiable demand for the irresistible embrace of the Disney Universe. For almost a century, children have been at the centre of what has grown into a global grooming project as an entertainment portfolio that began with the moving image has expanded to include mass merchandising, retail stores, theme parks and dedicated streaming services. There’s an acute understanding of the juvenile appetite for sentiment and spectacle layered over eternal themes of sibling rivalry, jealousy, cruelty, suffering and redemption. Every feature is attached to a bulging package of ancillaries - models, dolls, princess costumes, soundtracks, illustrated books, sticker collections, action figures, backpacks, board games, stationery and customised clothing - entirely designed to separate fools from their money. It’s a massive corporate presence that generates enormous revenue streams and yet, despite this long performative diatribe, two things must be conceded. To begin, some of the products are undeniably ingenious, amusing, sensitive, compassionate and offer cunningly contrived entertainment that can be appreciated on many levels, enough to undermine the most curmudgeonly resistance. And secondly, with very little effort, the company has roused the intemperate fury of the ineffable Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, triggering a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._DeSantis#:~:text=The%20case%2C%20filed%20by%20Disney,power%20for%20government%20retaliation%20purposes.">feud </a>that is currently grinding its way through the US legal system.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9ST6LfsrvmYgW_iSGPRzeNhvvjI4qSXXsm2HZUORpDJP2JroMfC4ZPR8zVoBB_pAa4LMQ2iMIvShS_5ucMsdBvBjWLTixiqk63cfKsMqPiseR0DHz2nKLrQeiSsKmaLqrDOhXpWxajZjQLguSl1ViCL35ZvXUzbLAhvDDus0MN9DrWEH-NseuITUe2w/s3338/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3338" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9ST6LfsrvmYgW_iSGPRzeNhvvjI4qSXXsm2HZUORpDJP2JroMfC4ZPR8zVoBB_pAa4LMQ2iMIvShS_5ucMsdBvBjWLTixiqk63cfKsMqPiseR0DHz2nKLrQeiSsKmaLqrDOhXpWxajZjQLguSl1ViCL35ZvXUzbLAhvDDus0MN9DrWEH-NseuITUe2w/w640-h490/b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All this was a long time in the future when this book was published in 1937. The colour illustrations were supplied in the form of stickers to be pasted in the book by the young reader. The star of the book was only 9 years old but the process of brand characterisation was well underway. Disney’s first full length feature (<i>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</i>) released at the end of 1937 marked the emergence of Disney as a major studio, even so, dreams of future world domination would have seemed implausible in those early days. But it was the end of the Disney age of innocence and a sign of what was to come.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrwk5l10sPP5xcbS99sRI-i7jcaSKW1RWuk-MgUcFnrE8GLVNVl4umQS9G37CYBoro-nC9ZDm74gsz7wDYNkHfELfZkAQBI2sgPCmZ9stTnp45WbDosxC8ij95FRVyNaeAVRPUV7dB2j-MhYPZx9YDEwtO_DkLnyL2cneXg1O_HPw2ulGZQuoEBaG1Jw/s3352/c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3352" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrwk5l10sPP5xcbS99sRI-i7jcaSKW1RWuk-MgUcFnrE8GLVNVl4umQS9G37CYBoro-nC9ZDm74gsz7wDYNkHfELfZkAQBI2sgPCmZ9stTnp45WbDosxC8ij95FRVyNaeAVRPUV7dB2j-MhYPZx9YDEwtO_DkLnyL2cneXg1O_HPw2ulGZQuoEBaG1Jw/w640-h486/c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ve4b93XS-dRCLBE-4909RXAosiGFCv6fhExSYpIB30ENhxuZfvNAopsXDtpAXnwxnOjosNZRlwB2pMBUfxVb4URKLUwS3Ccw8BuLeUo1S-41d3ayOtgqW1FmdK778DlvwUxd7iRa-qeqk345jCdP5dEFydFcY91t1-u0B-G-tO0W0TQp9bKqTo4nIA/s2669/p.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The book illustrations of <a href="https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2009/08/t-e-north.html" style="font-style: normal;">T E North</a> were featured here a few months ago when we posted about an aviation picture book (<i><a href="https://buttes-chaumont.blogspot.com/2023/08/airways-1939.html">Airways</a></i>) published in 1939. Notable for compositional originality and precision drawing, the qualities displayed in <i style="font-style: normal;">Airways</i> faded in his post-war output in line with contemporary trends. After 6 years of war during which he served in the RAF, rebuilding his career and adapting to a much changed commercial situation would have been difficult. The services of an assiduous agent would have been essential and it may have been an agent who spotted his affinity for transport subjects and marketed his skills to publishers. Appropriately for an artist born and bred in Hull this example is a book of maritime illustrations for young people. <span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Atmospheric effects predominate, brought to life by more gestural brushwork and a dramatically intensified colour palette.</span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Perhaps the romance of the age of the great ocean liners and the cargo ship demanded a more vigorous approach.</span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Recent collective memory of war fought at sea and the prestige invested in building ever larger and more luxurious liners fixed all things maritime firmly in the mid-century popular imagination in a way that’s inconceivable today.</span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">The image of the ship’s captain was a figure of steely resolve, commanding the loyalty of the crew in the face of danger from the elemental terrors of hostile seas. Young readers could be enthralled by the exotic network of international shipping, at the centre of which they were assured, Britain stood supreme and unchallenged - a supremacy that evaporated at breathtaking speed over the next decade as the nation first decolonised and later de-industrialised.</span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> </span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYVQcTQHaryBqoOpFAvC3CQRQYOGXztHMuUym0mCcFx5t5w341OiIfIYw62iFyjG-kpLDDsaAErwtuELtpPw_3wS8oeVN7GsB1JSAARb_AABh3wGzB243qTuFDDHIKPvVMIiOaUwTqEhh5vRGTaPmKV6ThuTd_QTDyr-j64NnckgtI6HagiT7hQevW0A/s1417/ac.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1126" data-original-width="1417" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYVQcTQHaryBqoOpFAvC3CQRQYOGXztHMuUym0mCcFx5t5w341OiIfIYw62iFyjG-kpLDDsaAErwtuELtpPw_3wS8oeVN7GsB1JSAARb_AABh3wGzB243qTuFDDHIKPvVMIiOaUwTqEhh5vRGTaPmKV6ThuTd_QTDyr-j64NnckgtI6HagiT7hQevW0A/w640-h508/ac.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Glaswegian tea tycoon, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lipton" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Sir Thomas Lipton</a><span style="font-size: 12px;"> would have been in his fifties when the camera captured him here - he worked hard to cut a dashing figure in public, active in the sports of yachting and sailing. In his youth he spent several years in the US and the commercial spirit he absorbed enabled him to amass a great fortune in the grocery and tea trades. Investment in publicity was the key to his success. The Lipton business has been featured here in <a href="https://buttes-chaumont.blogspot.com/2007/07/lipton-tea.html">2007</a> </span><span style="font-size: 12.173913px;">and</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> <a href="https://buttes-chaumont.blogspot.com/2020/08/more-tea-from-liptons.html">2020</a>.</span></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje5OHHFAawf0Vasaf6XbjTEFcsOZRLwbfiMwor4wcHIr4yX6uPlCsIe5yP2FOFIyrRsUhLmsmZ8bbZP0BJ-liTuZWkZsjAAObKJeqnhExhGJ_FdwYChzt-CMyNw4ab2NT_7FHNa0kd8No6oaPF9ssCuFmrzNUKJ-CFi9Lfmz34gkTGTGqLHbBSCxo4Ww/s2203/b.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="1394" data-original-width="2203" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje5OHHFAawf0Vasaf6XbjTEFcsOZRLwbfiMwor4wcHIr4yX6uPlCsIe5yP2FOFIyrRsUhLmsmZ8bbZP0BJ-liTuZWkZsjAAObKJeqnhExhGJ_FdwYChzt-CMyNw4ab2NT_7FHNa0kd8No6oaPF9ssCuFmrzNUKJ-CFi9Lfmz34gkTGTGqLHbBSCxo4Ww/w640-h404/b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first 14 years of the 20th. century were golden times for both the motor car and the picture postcard. While the motor car was the province of the rich, the postcard was cheap enough to be affordable to almost everyone. An embryonic consumer society expanded across the nation until the outbreak of war in 1914. When peace returned in 1918 the postcard went into steady decline but motoring would go on to dominate the next hundred years as the favoured means of transport. Celebrity culture was in its infancy, mostly populated by military heroes, cricketers, footballers and stars of the music hall and theatre. Inevitably they came together on the postcard and celebrities self importantly posed at the wheel of an automobile made a popular subject.</span></p><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Dare sisters (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zena_Dare">Zena</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Dare">Phyllis</a>, born in Chelsea and daughters of a divorce clerk) were truly <i>Made in SW3</i> Edwardian celebrities and though long forgotten today their maidenly faces peered coyly out of many a picture postcard in their day. More than 1,500 examples of Zena alone are listed on eBay at the time of writing. The two sisters were 12 and 9 respectively when they made their stage debuts in a Christmas pantomime in December 1899. Under the guidance of the ultra-successful actor-manager, playwright, producer and impresario, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hicks">Seymour Hicks</a>, they would grace the London stage in a succession of dramas, comedies and musicals for decades.</span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaCfCUiG2j8yvPj45AXwhiFHTcl7-RWf5S57CGcv74fteG_0Nq07UrPwV9uQpTAmh6cmDSvgsE4PeuVM2XRjt-jZewGGdAg4QgSnqPJ9AylxD15LcEFRs0jj8U19F-6fo5rsdJMLzm0eAXrUDId6t-6LLg3yzH9DL_jFkviZ3NI4cCWYV9bxFO6tlfVA/s1624/c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1624" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaCfCUiG2j8yvPj45AXwhiFHTcl7-RWf5S57CGcv74fteG_0Nq07UrPwV9uQpTAmh6cmDSvgsE4PeuVM2XRjt-jZewGGdAg4QgSnqPJ9AylxD15LcEFRs0jj8U19F-6fo5rsdJMLzm0eAXrUDId6t-6LLg3yzH9DL_jFkviZ3NI4cCWYV9bxFO6tlfVA/w640-h422/c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2jzWYjVBJDSH14gsTNG7HwiSrtf1WleN44jZCWGU_f4Rn4z-9lpSahrk_Af57ec1G3OVIpKW7FB9pOqRQuAt8lv_tc20tDQDEyR8rwEi16rej7hr0XLTLSQNXK-C8_6Mtt4W2ZGMWP-sFEhwVsH6f8lxDVAb7C6n771sMEN5Lr5XiceksejRNuNhFXg/s1633/d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1633" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2jzWYjVBJDSH14gsTNG7HwiSrtf1WleN44jZCWGU_f4Rn4z-9lpSahrk_Af57ec1G3OVIpKW7FB9pOqRQuAt8lv_tc20tDQDEyR8rwEi16rej7hr0XLTLSQNXK-C8_6Mtt4W2ZGMWP-sFEhwVsH6f8lxDVAb7C6n771sMEN5Lr5XiceksejRNuNhFXg/w640-h404/d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJiJMnLUHawwUwpa-7DEf3EpGrxQ18ozmQfrZBjq2HZMLK7tB3wQRYOkD50adn0ZEpw4Zja6yaWHscN6Svx5Yjy7jkJA7svNg5rjEKfX4GDSoP4KG8w-ZHZfmjKDfq3jskvemZbrNL7aXI0VpoAEtlhUAp8Viq7cNrBmyUM_AvddU8vuG1UO68bmQqTw/s1623/e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1623" data-original-width="1038" height="950" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJiJMnLUHawwUwpa-7DEf3EpGrxQ18ozmQfrZBjq2HZMLK7tB3wQRYOkD50adn0ZEpw4Zja6yaWHscN6Svx5Yjy7jkJA7svNg5rjEKfX4GDSoP4KG8w-ZHZfmjKDfq3jskvemZbrNL7aXI0VpoAEtlhUAp8Viq7cNrBmyUM_AvddU8vuG1UO68bmQqTw/w612-h950/e.jpg" width="612" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiswyhvv6qFAeLjHeCE0n-0zIh9ODIiSl0ZotGoUJbckFl3eF5vsn2SY6MFINQ5xwjxJH_hJMTN2OAfD1ysy7NInxSpQnvPPMko0xEUcFGYUPNfrLi2MCYXT4vYBNCCeH1_zUYa3TlW9o8pQrBMnKOnFlVRuKyZLKDN6FXHg3XXBI101lU44TfRr416Q/s2175/f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1386" data-original-width="2175" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiswyhvv6qFAeLjHeCE0n-0zIh9ODIiSl0ZotGoUJbckFl3eF5vsn2SY6MFINQ5xwjxJH_hJMTN2OAfD1ysy7NInxSpQnvPPMko0xEUcFGYUPNfrLi2MCYXT4vYBNCCeH1_zUYa3TlW9o8pQrBMnKOnFlVRuKyZLKDN6FXHg3XXBI101lU44TfRr416Q/w640-h410/f.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Arundale">Sybil Arundale</a> was a child performer in the music hall and graduated to Shakespeare and Ibsen parts in the theatre. Cinema and TV followed - she died in 1965. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaynor_Rowlands">Gaynor Rowlands</a>’s career as a dancer was curtailed at the age of 23 when she died in 1906 during an operation for appendicitis. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEY0LCOYGQvAGXqhHGt0Wi872SVGhosVlubZfA_r8ObrR41D_3_xT8Q93dz8LbIYhT9kmLjxhKUC27k7Gjln3c2Fi921AnDwsxOVpKR4RKxf9X52GW9K1lp5gVNn8Vnwn1U2LZ9klY7xFpmvb9_0J_Xbw87kayyLt2s6DqKRmFF6jPZDF5ndLfcIS-nQ/s2171/g.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2171" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEY0LCOYGQvAGXqhHGt0Wi872SVGhosVlubZfA_r8ObrR41D_3_xT8Q93dz8LbIYhT9kmLjxhKUC27k7Gjln3c2Fi921AnDwsxOVpKR4RKxf9X52GW9K1lp5gVNn8Vnwn1U2LZ9klY7xFpmvb9_0J_Xbw87kayyLt2s6DqKRmFF6jPZDF5ndLfcIS-nQ/w640-h402/g.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Collier">Constance Collier</a> made the transition from the London stage to Hollywood where she found work in silent movies and went on to become a leading voice coach in the late twenties with the advent of the talkies. In 1948 she was cast in Hitchcock’s <i>Rope</i> as Mrs. Atwater and her star shines on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her companion, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettice_Fairfax">Lettice Fairfax</a> was a stage actress specialising in musical comedy - her career seemed to stall in 1925 and she died in 1948.</span></p><p> </p>Phil Beardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075686435889440881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65501308820871089.post-11093512792967065142023-11-05T11:23:00.000+00:002023-11-05T11:23:47.264+00:00Postcard of the Day No. 113, Sutton Bridge <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeTCSgrouoqNJzOBa7nu8TU6rVrBbqrJNEHo4kg1LBruL_-ecf4elpXurjOGCJIXw1TX_rnUPM_lP6jez7q5h4fXARNh_hk6fBIqwEDUwMP5lowJKvTitNmV7tiwXShp1C6WU9_S3pd1-Ckz18jeokuGjzj0zwlcz88_Uri_2Y3p_sRUGTY0HkriOrRg/s4126/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2670" data-original-width="4126" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeTCSgrouoqNJzOBa7nu8TU6rVrBbqrJNEHo4kg1LBruL_-ecf4elpXurjOGCJIXw1TX_rnUPM_lP6jez7q5h4fXARNh_hk6fBIqwEDUwMP5lowJKvTitNmV7tiwXShp1C6WU9_S3pd1-Ckz18jeokuGjzj0zwlcz88_Uri_2Y3p_sRUGTY0HkriOrRg/w640-h414/a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It seems the arrival of the camera was anticipated since the signalman has brought his daughters along to be part of the photograph. Father is stood behind them as they pose on the balcony. Another railway employee stands in the doorway to the signal box, sporting a watch and chain. In the distance the operator of the swing bridge has stepped out of the control cabin to be included in the picture. All is unusually pristine and crisp - from the timber fencing to the signal gantries via the rivets on the bridge. The track work and the signal cabling is in immaculate condition.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9oxbxzZpuh5ii6AbbD4a_tkAXwNHvOxUDRqm3IGL1dVZe_t2DqmO9GQd0xILHwLpuHzbzZfs29I4-z_JOIYewVmikDcPZ3QIx4cLlKxWg-xGc3oH1p_HeA73xjZp7H7gIWsVaYZtmUJdPcxzlM4YTQUe_XxK963ASkoGM6GDT-AA0CHj7jPLXdHq24A/s4096/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1912" data-original-width="4096" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9oxbxzZpuh5ii6AbbD4a_tkAXwNHvOxUDRqm3IGL1dVZe_t2DqmO9GQd0xILHwLpuHzbzZfs29I4-z_JOIYewVmikDcPZ3QIx4cLlKxWg-xGc3oH1p_HeA73xjZp7H7gIWsVaYZtmUJdPcxzlM4YTQUe_XxK963ASkoGM6GDT-AA0CHj7jPLXdHq24A/w640-h298/b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZyA_Z6jSdWwa7I1euTuU3TaVoxj8-u_GWtfFgKT2jbBTwZB-XMqvMWESFJqTCF5imDQXYH7Bm2hdVx1wV9oSTJyzmunXMGmMUzjnaeSy-KJJidKmrC0HjT4z3sIyysWqTwuR0Iq6rOVCtG4vDChFJ7OsPM-LKhL6gzpbDreoqPr4jU9XbKYybtJdNg/s4096/c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1922" data-original-width="4096" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZyA_Z6jSdWwa7I1euTuU3TaVoxj8-u_GWtfFgKT2jbBTwZB-XMqvMWESFJqTCF5imDQXYH7Bm2hdVx1wV9oSTJyzmunXMGmMUzjnaeSy-KJJidKmrC0HjT4z3sIyysWqTwuR0Iq6rOVCtG4vDChFJ7OsPM-LKhL6gzpbDreoqPr4jU9XbKYybtJdNg/w640-h302/c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">T</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">his is the Cross Keys Swing Bridge, an east-west crossing of the River Nene at the Lincolnshire town of Sutton Bridge as photographed from the station. When it opened in 1897, one span served as a roadway while the other was used for railway traffic by the Midland and Great Northern Railway connecting East Anglia with the Midlands and Northern England, mainly for the transport of coal and it remained that way until the railway closed in 1965. The spans are only wide enough for one-way operation and two signal boxes were required to safely filter the rail traffic into a single track. Power supply for moving the bridge was initially provided by two adapted locomotive boilers installed by Armstrong, Whitworth. In latter years electric motors did the job. Commercial shipping bound for Wisbech and leisure craft still pass and the bridge remains in occasional use. Both the <a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064536">bridge</a> and the <a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204796?section=official-list-entry">Engine House</a> (not visible in the postcard) are Grade II* listed by Historic England. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GacC-qudpTVCcx7xbpT7lXpBrqqfGfNMKH1YvH00VlcN1siu8-D_0Op7uSvw03G7aiSfy4xQ7VQYVrz7s3Yc6_lll6SPBtCaBY7S7HMy_qJkJ-TSOXbYoaS-CL0g9XsWTG4hbq-9Qsu3JMRma_YQpt_tCpX9jJhjd5L7vUhzgBu8PrmXnk3FetzdfA/s1626/d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1626" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GacC-qudpTVCcx7xbpT7lXpBrqqfGfNMKH1YvH00VlcN1siu8-D_0Op7uSvw03G7aiSfy4xQ7VQYVrz7s3Yc6_lll6SPBtCaBY7S7HMy_qJkJ-TSOXbYoaS-CL0g9XsWTG4hbq-9Qsu3JMRma_YQpt_tCpX9jJhjd5L7vUhzgBu8PrmXnk3FetzdfA/w640-h410/d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We begin with a flatly painted image of a pint of beer in a straight glass resting on an otherwise empty table in the grip of a sturdy hand - it’s a factual exercise and nothing more. Attached to the hand is Robert Morson Hughes, a fellow artist and associate of the painter Harold Knight - the year is 1915, the First World War is in progress and Knight, a conscientious objector, is about to be put to work as a farm labourer. The subject, Hughes, was a Lamorna based painter of mainly topographical subjects. Here he has the air of a country landowner in a slightly oversized suit, from beneath the downturned brim of his hat he stares with suspicion out of the painting. Knight has conveyed strength of character and a sense of presence in a stolid, unemphatic manner.</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-1qSVygrZGyEGrGYsOJ-fgS1jxvzP-ClG6S5zVJ10iliuXz0zWSsOwNhQXPa3YIXVDcsgDxz2SizHVgxi5wZS9pFPgQEDCRwi5zab6loLdJP-TIMvBWYSPCLUmvr_2u4JIbT41XkiA59-p06U6V0jYK3tkJnQc6cLZeUQpbtKEO4TRKehKUj2157DQQ/s3010/ba.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="2631" data-original-width="3010" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-1qSVygrZGyEGrGYsOJ-fgS1jxvzP-ClG6S5zVJ10iliuXz0zWSsOwNhQXPa3YIXVDcsgDxz2SizHVgxi5wZS9pFPgQEDCRwi5zab6loLdJP-TIMvBWYSPCLUmvr_2u4JIbT41XkiA59-p06U6V0jYK3tkJnQc6cLZeUQpbtKEO4TRKehKUj2157DQQ/w640-h560/ba.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Harold Knight (1873-1953), <i>Portrait of Robert Morson Hughes</i> (c 1915)</b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2xWSeID74mUHr7TtIpNYSVjaP-Tnfgw3zWcPfKmVD_zVLD16SMjr-vKuiMppTZLpCpfxwD_b7gFq9LlphBnK6k-5UNQfTMZDWZw3OcSfuu5O3_FqRZop_obe3-HDzRthrok5EXAAC09Oy_SCxxNIH-VFBm4nEw_JPl76xQGGgB-U0Up2HcEz3Y8IBoQ/s2598/bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2312" data-original-width="2598" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2xWSeID74mUHr7TtIpNYSVjaP-Tnfgw3zWcPfKmVD_zVLD16SMjr-vKuiMppTZLpCpfxwD_b7gFq9LlphBnK6k-5UNQfTMZDWZw3OcSfuu5O3_FqRZop_obe3-HDzRthrok5EXAAC09Oy_SCxxNIH-VFBm4nEw_JPl76xQGGgB-U0Up2HcEz3Y8IBoQ/w640-h572/bb.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Robert Morson Hughes (1873-1953), <i>Carn Boscawen</i> (1928?)</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Visits to local museums are always a pleasure and Penlee House Museum is a fine example that has the dual function of providing a lively overview of local history with a comprehensive collection of interesting paintings by locally based artists with historically national reputations. The core of the collection is made up of painters active in the 19th. and early 20th. century, working in the Penzance - Newlyn region of Cornwall. Aesthetically conservative, averse to experimentation and inheritors of a tradition of realism that goes back to Courbet (as diluted by Bastien-Lepage), these painters built up an impressive visual archive of the minutiae of Victorian and Edwardian daily life in West Cornwall alongside a comprehensive record of the abundant varied landscape and coastal scenery in the county. Many had worked in the art colonies of Brittany and become committed to painting <i>en plein-air</i> but Impressionism remained a step too far.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCaDOO7lij0rS-SDFVg7HTyyLv_RozTsAmBEYrCE7jwAsY6LHN1utx86Qm1GD2v7LcHKAHzc6VgbILMzM2nd9G8HFnWTB3gm63xH_jLHZRFRWnGI8YhwGE9DFw1R1sZMaM1dhwx30ao1_4yvydE8L4JLmlF5_QiCCzOIgg-BYooHcNmjgCPQfC2Ws07Q/s3276/c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2529" data-original-width="3276" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCaDOO7lij0rS-SDFVg7HTyyLv_RozTsAmBEYrCE7jwAsY6LHN1utx86Qm1GD2v7LcHKAHzc6VgbILMzM2nd9G8HFnWTB3gm63xH_jLHZRFRWnGI8YhwGE9DFw1R1sZMaM1dhwx30ao1_4yvydE8L4JLmlF5_QiCCzOIgg-BYooHcNmjgCPQfC2Ws07Q/w640-h494/c.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Laura Knight (1877-1970), <i>My Lady of the Rocks </i>ND</b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Although this body of work has come to be regarded as an essential component of the Cornish cultural identity it’s notable that many aspects of that identity were, for the most part, studiously ignored. While the fishing industry was much celebrated for its pictorial values, the world of mining, heavy engineering and new technologies got little or no attention - the only exceptions being quarrying, a reliably popular landscape subject and the railways that became a regular source of income for Stanhope Forbes. All this despite Cornwall having a strong claim to being the global birthplace of steam power. The Celtic heritage that separated Cornwall from the Anglo-Saxon territory east of the Tamar likewise went unremarked along with the great Neolithic assemblages of menhirs and stone circles, at least until the 1940s when Ithell Colquhoun turned up in Lamorna. Most of these painters were drawn to Cornwall from elsewhere in the country and many formed strong personal links with the indigenous community, their interests didn’t encompass the profound sense of Cornish exceptionalism held by the local intelligentsia. </span></p><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcKp51XmdKOl6QkKlLm3YbDTMs4e-STUJNDecoBcC6u9gxjgRU1yik5ZPSvJAhE2_cz95k1SeLUoJLAYGYVtKwzC5wntMPtlq9hhx-X4unH6d1byRfcAVg2N27Wxve6KBOMiO9GMDkLhklPaeDSt80_avxTvrNUot8EBKOrqTOWmtU8vryl4pFNlrfmQ/s3231/da.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2658" data-original-width="3231" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcKp51XmdKOl6QkKlLm3YbDTMs4e-STUJNDecoBcC6u9gxjgRU1yik5ZPSvJAhE2_cz95k1SeLUoJLAYGYVtKwzC5wntMPtlq9hhx-X4unH6d1byRfcAVg2N27Wxve6KBOMiO9GMDkLhklPaeDSt80_avxTvrNUot8EBKOrqTOWmtU8vryl4pFNlrfmQ/w640-h526/da.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Stanhope Forbes (1857-1947), <i>Abbey Slip</i> (1921)</b></span></p><div><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWLijQk1Texgf7jYYQNRgkkcvphTRjMOWco0uvOrcgd9MGoPwh_zgw8l8zZblOngpC_M13r_PQKY-ynY4yPBIfTTknyN5EtPe2wZfHK34CeM4rMOvVgtkAXOqNpVAuXtc6J31zBuZMrNJqsxB34-OAeFZ41iNmcMmaRnGoF7q8ZAHNRCPGDOZYwO_dA/s2752/db.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2391" data-original-width="2752" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWLijQk1Texgf7jYYQNRgkkcvphTRjMOWco0uvOrcgd9MGoPwh_zgw8l8zZblOngpC_M13r_PQKY-ynY4yPBIfTTknyN5EtPe2wZfHK34CeM4rMOvVgtkAXOqNpVAuXtc6J31zBuZMrNJqsxB34-OAeFZ41iNmcMmaRnGoF7q8ZAHNRCPGDOZYwO_dA/w640-h558/db.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Laura Knight (1877-1970), <i>Spring</i> (1916)</b></span></p><div><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is not to undervalue the contribution that these artists have made to the popular image of Cornwall as a special place. Their brushes may have been preoccupied with surface values but by virtue of sheer representational brilliance their work acquired lasting value. Laura Knight and Stanhope Forbes stand apart in the quality and consistency of their work though Knight’s paintings have a bravura and vitality that often make Forbes look pedestrian by comparison. By the time Laura and Harold Knight moved to Newlyn in 1907, Forbes was well established as the leader of the Newlyn painters where he’d been active since 1884. The Knights settled in Lamorna but were soon accepted into Forbes’s circle. While Harold’s taciturn nature caused him to hold back, Laura played a full and active part in the social life of the artistic community. For his part, Forbes was especially impressed by Laura’s paintings. Most Newlyn painters stayed loyal to their locality a few shuttled back and forth to St. Ives where new ideas were more readily accepted. Forbes reacted with disproportionate hostility when Whistler and Sickert spent time in St. Ives. This went both ways - Sickert especially loathed the paintings of Newlyn’s Frank Bramley whose <i>A Hopeless Dawn</i> was rapturously received by an audience hungry for pathos at the Royal Academy (RA) in 1888.</span></p><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZ-TvSbO0JoyoXQPEqEEMIW821mpooMM87i3owGveYAt8yAaURifEF-gRqSLuqhdxGP2dkBVQ6HWQ1Ix6prsijdfyv3szR72F2JBcr6bJ5d-trg_7jSte-J9-tgEqvAzKzS8wWr3sof9DrO8O4BUs91Pw1FPFg029amSHIOwPP2gUoevX2bm1FlZv0A/s3297/e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2328" data-original-width="3297" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZ-TvSbO0JoyoXQPEqEEMIW821mpooMM87i3owGveYAt8yAaURifEF-gRqSLuqhdxGP2dkBVQ6HWQ1Ix6prsijdfyv3szR72F2JBcr6bJ5d-trg_7jSte-J9-tgEqvAzKzS8wWr3sof9DrO8O4BUs91Pw1FPFg029amSHIOwPP2gUoevX2bm1FlZv0A/w640-h452/e.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Norman Garstin (1847-1926), <i>The Rain it Raineth Every Day</i> (1889) </b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Most of the Newlyners were reluctant to stray far from their patch - an exception was Irish born Norman Garstin whose global wanderings set him apart. His travels took him to Africa, North America and all over Europe and inspired him to lead groups of students on sketching trips to continental art centres. In 1889 his major painting of a rainswept Penzance seafront (<i>The Rain It Raineth Every Day</i>), was rejected by the RA for being ‘too French’ with its subtle tonal observations. Further humiliation lay in wait - when Garstin later presented the painting to Penzance Town Council it was hidden away for fear it would deter visitors. Garstin’s vindication may have been a long time coming but today’s visitors have voted it their favourite painting in the museum. A future post will look at how local history is served in the museum </span></p><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG0rZCJQs-y0jYaxvtfA56CndR4TbLRIHMGzekXFcJK8jiRBi4vhPwZVXz05M99mr82G0001SZAgL-aM3wPcY4YGIUqInjEyfR4dHyX-1pHAi0I9bCQCTgakPb5a-JeDdDnp4SNbAoBQNWBU1dAbePkANcHbIj4K1DTrF_9IDQCOqJTi5VYCnFIpxnng/s3013/f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2734" data-original-width="3013" height="582" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG0rZCJQs-y0jYaxvtfA56CndR4TbLRIHMGzekXFcJK8jiRBi4vhPwZVXz05M99mr82G0001SZAgL-aM3wPcY4YGIUqInjEyfR4dHyX-1pHAi0I9bCQCTgakPb5a-JeDdDnp4SNbAoBQNWBU1dAbePkANcHbIj4K1DTrF_9IDQCOqJTi5VYCnFIpxnng/w640-h582/f.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Samuel ‘Lamorna’ Birch (1869-1955), <i>The Quiet of our Valley</i> (1940)</b></span></p><div><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY3w-VxQFDsORE2iBT1Qin9Q1a5D0kmrsUcwjJO7kck69oK_3IDWX9LgRYi6tF2mkZ1Z_OX7zSPLCXwNeKFYDHcwrXVmt2dvMwtNqq2m29mZwGE-3bWu53ZGxWZvUFz5ftnkAYVapxKNFb2vglZNWc1l4pxNFpkY04QD5gpEx3jscaHBg-DAVFhVUa0g/s3437/g.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2274" data-original-width="3437" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY3w-VxQFDsORE2iBT1Qin9Q1a5D0kmrsUcwjJO7kck69oK_3IDWX9LgRYi6tF2mkZ1Z_OX7zSPLCXwNeKFYDHcwrXVmt2dvMwtNqq2m29mZwGE-3bWu53ZGxWZvUFz5ftnkAYVapxKNFb2vglZNWc1l4pxNFpkY04QD5gpEx3jscaHBg-DAVFhVUa0g/w640-h426/g.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Samuel ‘Lamorna’ Birch (1869-1955), trio of landscapes, <i>Lamorna Valley in Summer</i> (right)</b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5sC0TL4q6orEFvDYTjK7G2oMFyoju42mDWzt9KUMjecwR-oivVpR0IJCiKjl_jzP8jkUrJVESaOLQORDOvjjczYe3UlfOE9wQ2Cd4F3i2mNcOQxJS_0C9lpsV8gusyBlE9znxKgzsmMxRJEnZAgFKIQyWvUz0o9ymsH52KPVakAonZtZa34oQldzpwQ/s2938/h.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2584" data-original-width="2938" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5sC0TL4q6orEFvDYTjK7G2oMFyoju42mDWzt9KUMjecwR-oivVpR0IJCiKjl_jzP8jkUrJVESaOLQORDOvjjczYe3UlfOE9wQ2Cd4F3i2mNcOQxJS_0C9lpsV8gusyBlE9znxKgzsmMxRJEnZAgFKIQyWvUz0o9ymsH52KPVakAonZtZa34oQldzpwQ/w640-h562/h.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Frank Gascoigne Heath (1873-1938), <i> A Game of Cut-throat Euchre</i> (1909)</b></span></p><div><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIO4tISVS7GtFrckq2oL7XKFMhjfRoqaS2tVeBRpWOvze3YQOVu95k_fM2nZTOYbqyHRYT7IK45a8fGPj1OP38f4Q9QfE19uAyOfHM4ZocvZQ-I8vIrnyGa6KbvCz9ee388s9h8s0bWtGWYYSQ4rLpEdJiidyW6D3C4IZwouI66JcVldj9OvHBD6Uz2A/s2491/i.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2491" data-original-width="2141" height="744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIO4tISVS7GtFrckq2oL7XKFMhjfRoqaS2tVeBRpWOvze3YQOVu95k_fM2nZTOYbqyHRYT7IK45a8fGPj1OP38f4Q9QfE19uAyOfHM4ZocvZQ-I8vIrnyGa6KbvCz9ee388s9h8s0bWtGWYYSQ4rLpEdJiidyW6D3C4IZwouI66JcVldj9OvHBD6Uz2A/w639-h744/i.jpg" width="639" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Frank Gascoigne Heath (1873-1938), <i>The Little Maid</i> (1923)</b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFhdvimmBr1mvl2lP4vLKethYIFio3HQ1UzXh3XCbE90l5N8Ae0JsjHSxGK0gV8t0MpojBkV2cr1BdAQBQWAviMApE5qWmCWCF2V8mLyIsszVxnj40zrUsje5sGs5ThAuREByeFqVjw0slMgjqUCjHm_rDkxe_AE3HVKpLQQcQtkyTZWFGLoX8LTG9GA/s3047/j.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="3047" height="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFhdvimmBr1mvl2lP4vLKethYIFio3HQ1UzXh3XCbE90l5N8Ae0JsjHSxGK0gV8t0MpojBkV2cr1BdAQBQWAviMApE5qWmCWCF2V8mLyIsszVxnj40zrUsje5sGs5ThAuREByeFqVjw0slMgjqUCjHm_rDkxe_AE3HVKpLQQcQtkyTZWFGLoX8LTG9GA/w640-h564/j.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Charles Simpson (1885-1971), <i>Dying Light, Carn Barges</i> ND</b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXyqmJihdVTkgEPz9RmgT4uz28CA2eqecydeysoRFoqFL9zotgmJAUiAQ4_cQiMUI6SBgrJUfTlUrh1AhBnzrk3ZeupE45iMIpIKCnT6YElrOPEuy6SBlnce1UB7ht2Qu2mWaSWgPeGxntoJneI95lBe40shM0cgbIXrYKcy9ttXSzmdBnl1eWuY2PvA/s3328/k.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3328" data-original-width="2482" height="804" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXyqmJihdVTkgEPz9RmgT4uz28CA2eqecydeysoRFoqFL9zotgmJAUiAQ4_cQiMUI6SBgrJUfTlUrh1AhBnzrk3ZeupE45iMIpIKCnT6YElrOPEuy6SBlnce1UB7ht2Qu2mWaSWgPeGxntoJneI95lBe40shM0cgbIXrYKcy9ttXSzmdBnl1eWuY2PvA/w603-h804/k.jpg" width="603" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Stanley Gardiner (1888-1952), <i>The Old Quay, Lamorna</i> (Upper), Samuel ‘Lamorna’ Birch (1869-1955), <i>Lamorna Cove</i> (Lower)</b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wlOdyfHpCO4onYvxh2YUagmviqm_grFJp2CNb92Y5WiXGtrt7Kjvgb1GFVXFh57T6DIS0-8GHZpaIYzIHJI_fzZlh_Sxc66viLIjnYtY-ZwdIyY0-fuq8G5Rzf1Az0WozK_JGNUi_OJKX_1Vf5zHl1Qvb5hUlxOiMppDoVhxb9Op5vjek7xF7_xyqw/s2217/l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2217" data-original-width="2118" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wlOdyfHpCO4onYvxh2YUagmviqm_grFJp2CNb92Y5WiXGtrt7Kjvgb1GFVXFh57T6DIS0-8GHZpaIYzIHJI_fzZlh_Sxc66viLIjnYtY-ZwdIyY0-fuq8G5Rzf1Az0WozK_JGNUi_OJKX_1Vf5zHl1Qvb5hUlxOiMppDoVhxb9Op5vjek7xF7_xyqw/w612-h640/l.jpg" width="612" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Harold Harvey (1874-1941), <i>Laura and Paul Jewill Hill</i> (1915)</b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYjpeGK-IcSGGXzQdlOx9VNXj8srBgr9S4q6HJg0cjGHsRENcCVMfkxeZJqIwBO0whtnIzGTRqCJ9E56I4lM5tn1NnxI4yg2PyT4Eg-FNrdzoDzhgU28zNAVe4GUAKdHCKPi_CjTvmu5XgPIPjRhmQ9vlGruL6nDxnUjpPceBGjsZXEsGP3rPeUYkauQ/s2974/m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2974" data-original-width="2588" height="728" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYjpeGK-IcSGGXzQdlOx9VNXj8srBgr9S4q6HJg0cjGHsRENcCVMfkxeZJqIwBO0whtnIzGTRqCJ9E56I4lM5tn1NnxI4yg2PyT4Eg-FNrdzoDzhgU28zNAVe4GUAKdHCKPi_CjTvmu5XgPIPjRhmQ9vlGruL6nDxnUjpPceBGjsZXEsGP3rPeUYkauQ/w634-h728/m.jpg" width="634" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Frank Bramley (1857-1915), <i>Eyes and No Eyes</i> (1887)</b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p>Phil Beardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075686435889440881noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65501308820871089.post-14436593372527097482023-10-18T14:56:00.000+01:002023-10-18T14:56:05.415+01:00Rundfahrten<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The tour bus never goes away - every major city has fleets of these vehicles, usually open-topped, finished in garish colour combinations and accompanied by teams of outriders roaming the streets to sign up new customers. It’s sightseeing at its most basic, sit back and let the sights come to you. Seconds later your photos can be glowing on Instagram. In the interwar years the tradition was for a jobbing photographer to capture the tour bus and its passengers before its departure. Darkroom technicians would swiftly do their magic and sparkling prints would be sold to passengers on their return. The results were often surprisingly good considering the time pressure and as you might expect, these examples from German cities achieved a remarkable degree of definition.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrg0iVhhu-O-SCO6e-_1aKuDwK7I3Nm-XSZGDqmUywuPeFWFi6SdTTAaje4NFouyOOmtQWx7HyjC2XIqCy_S4RmrMuHbYGnSqdC-j4dCm9GHU8RYV_xHdFu7OhhCdJDKgQnqPho-IYEKanJ8gDfM3p1PIchUXBo7vaj3IkhkeTs0eq9Q6mlTZdVbTiFw/s6526/b.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4171" data-original-width="6526" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrg0iVhhu-O-SCO6e-_1aKuDwK7I3Nm-XSZGDqmUywuPeFWFi6SdTTAaje4NFouyOOmtQWx7HyjC2XIqCy_S4RmrMuHbYGnSqdC-j4dCm9GHU8RYV_xHdFu7OhhCdJDKgQnqPho-IYEKanJ8gDfM3p1PIchUXBo7vaj3IkhkeTs0eq9Q6mlTZdVbTiFw/w640-h412/b.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We begin with the Berlin tour guide posed in front of the bus on the Unter Den Linden - like everyone else she squints into the glare of low autumnal sun. Hats, overcoats and furs offer protection from the cold, the date is October 6th. 1922. Most passengers make the effort to smile for the camera and have the air of belonging in upper income groups. A potential subversive loiters second from the right, his prominent facial hair indicative of a non-conformist nature. Moving on to Cologne in 1910 we meet a horse drawn charabanc outside the west doors of the cathedral. Uniformed staff in top hats are in charge and the group are perched high on upholstered benches. Not so many smiles in 1910 and some notably grumpy veiled faces. Three further examples from Cologne, all posed outside the cathedral and examples from Munich and Nuremberg complete the selection. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1r7bZYrGhKjor-gBPiUV37PiUuMZy13l8Cy2uXkpJS0GpJUMT1a16NOLn3hGujlRS02pf-Fn_jZrYjan1iuOROUHqbilfN1nORpGjTgqAlrU0hTEahSYmUq8pum3UbnfP8JmteYskhdUFBoCcwBOy9B_3Lz9X01ay2euNU6HbqTM9xZ6X6qeAl4i2Eg/s1903/c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1292" data-original-width="1903" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1r7bZYrGhKjor-gBPiUV37PiUuMZy13l8Cy2uXkpJS0GpJUMT1a16NOLn3hGujlRS02pf-Fn_jZrYjan1iuOROUHqbilfN1nORpGjTgqAlrU0hTEahSYmUq8pum3UbnfP8JmteYskhdUFBoCcwBOy9B_3Lz9X01ay2euNU6HbqTM9xZ6X6qeAl4i2Eg/w640-h436/c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN0dqYfopH6YKiEYd_y7aJaI12PqbsFQ_Jm7lsuOlpiG5_6GhWCMZg-JSx-Q9ZHw-sbtql1m6-v9Ybdcc1XRIsyPCwm16k5rZxKayLrOdo019j3dBKbt5k6E2gt40eIcGJupBmfoiq94RCcM7KPj91YDGuNrqyp1hm6KMxWwhklKH84yVgvWWVGAG7-A/s2094/d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2107" data-original-width="3310" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_krMOKcng5SYw93jctHnjPbJs0FevhDQ1SvU81ZSqC28VI33K4E5ngdPELsw15K_dOP0rFInv6zTY5UPPGfCMWI6wUWQdlynhgDlNNhOteZvdUMIs2Ckewtp8Kgw_ApkoaeJQpY1md8gK8hntO8zwVXsAk1gmhxw1EcdrTNzBuSD9qIXSDa57nyYGg/w640-h410/n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Phil Beardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075686435889440881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65501308820871089.post-69959138766173645872023-10-09T13:32:00.000+01:002023-10-09T13:32:07.921+01:00Art of Society 1900-1945, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGU0CeYF8Ap80viFVBjf3BgKOUDBEIEG85ZnTTr3MGRF6O8DhNOwV4l7fKs6uxti5_gkPRcfuqcnGorFMO9QnJzLt2HWc5C4MZpj7ohpYd1imZtL648ClCQh-iZyQYv2Ml0RxWbEwa2AbNNUl3P4zGuwy_2m2eG8BtnIa6II-mGi6PMe27_W9mR0TvVA/s2755/a.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="2380" data-original-width="2755" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGU0CeYF8Ap80viFVBjf3BgKOUDBEIEG85ZnTTr3MGRF6O8DhNOwV4l7fKs6uxti5_gkPRcfuqcnGorFMO9QnJzLt2HWc5C4MZpj7ohpYd1imZtL648ClCQh-iZyQYv2Ml0RxWbEwa2AbNNUl3P4zGuwy_2m2eG8BtnIa6II-mGi6PMe27_W9mR0TvVA/w640-h552/a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Z VIII, Lászlo Moholy-Nagy (1924)</span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Of all the paintings in this exhibition, this was the one that held my attention the longest. Its connection with the exhibition theme was not immediately obvious but it was a singular point of calm in a line-up of loud and assertive paintings demanding serious scrutiny. Looking at an abstract arrangement of related geometric forms in muted colours makes it own demands - principally that the viewer is prepared to accept its legitimacy as a work of art and not worry about the absence of figuration. While there’s not much of a case to be made for overlapping and intersecting semi-transparent shapes as windows into the human condition they can be a rich source of visual pleasure when choreographed with sensitivity and precision. All his career Moholy-Nagy was a restless experimenter and this is one of a series of related compositions painted in his second year of teaching at the Bauhaus where he replaced Johannes Itten who together with Paul Klee represented the spiritual tendency of the early years Bauhaus. Moholy-Nagy had no such tendencies and took full advantage of the opportunity to button himself into his boiler suit and get to work in his studio. This painting comes at the high point of his interest in Constructivism-inspired composition - he would continue to explore his favoured themes (transparency, asymmetry, dynamism, spatial ambiguity, transformation) in photography, collage, assemblage, typography and graphic design. Constructivists sought to integrate their practice into state-led programmes to advance social progress and eliminate inequality which finally connects us back to the exhibition theme.</span></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrHvpK4C72O6cusG5xV7kzaa27oabTYho_LBd80BG1HmB39ek5jtF5fFZuSWWJ99nzLSD5tmbYm3QaPw1TZihA6HKRu-OfwQYYOCI3luuEs5EiLterojkASUNh6e_oMk8H9ctTH0zX1hyzu2gMyLKopVxoFNdakttSCbGva06_Zy3g5-TFJ_uoTdZ6g/s2453/aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2453" data-original-width="2136" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrHvpK4C72O6cusG5xV7kzaa27oabTYho_LBd80BG1HmB39ek5jtF5fFZuSWWJ99nzLSD5tmbYm3QaPw1TZihA6HKRu-OfwQYYOCI3luuEs5EiLterojkASUNh6e_oMk8H9ctTH0zX1hyzu2gMyLKopVxoFNdakttSCbGva06_Zy3g5-TFJ_uoTdZ6g/w560-h640/aa.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Stadt</i>, Otto Moller (1921)</span></b></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Elsewhere in the exhibition, which was drawn from the collection of the Neue Nationalgalerie, artists could be seen engaging with major themes - Weimar-era decadence, Prussian militarism, socialist utopianism, horrors of modern warfare, dehumanising labour. This is a personal selection of paintings that caught my eye - Expressionist paintings are given short shrift, ships, trams and trains keep turning up and there’s a bias towards unfamiliar (on my part) material. It was interesting to see so many disturbing visions of the not so distant past, a period whose first hand witnesses are almost all deceased. And a comfort in the sense that the visions of the artists who shared in the collective experience of the chain of catastrophes that stains the period under review, still have a part to play in the avoidance of a reprise.</span></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Ma2SethIiEMhWe6fYdKvTfzImB2LwZNIPqRCn0FbY8FM4AhVm1qTuvL4lsc1Ao6sPYiALYBlhFcxNn_QpJagUQfwyU9PKMOQviBo8ldI03ccVc0BMOjKS-lFXLhzGRMFEg2jh5_Fk4GVBUcH98yXysRNYCqzWRO71LxsoCUztev8l9c3dXz1Oehgwg/s2689/ab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2169" data-original-width="2689" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Ma2SethIiEMhWe6fYdKvTfzImB2LwZNIPqRCn0FbY8FM4AhVm1qTuvL4lsc1Ao6sPYiALYBlhFcxNn_QpJagUQfwyU9PKMOQviBo8ldI03ccVc0BMOjKS-lFXLhzGRMFEg2jh5_Fk4GVBUcH98yXysRNYCqzWRO71LxsoCUztev8l9c3dXz1Oehgwg/w640-h518/ab.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Walter Spies, <i>The Carousel</i>, 1937</span></b><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO2rkwjQi24ueP0pu8fhHa3reAahvdikvH-liTVD6d15BmsuzKRL6Sr3eZh-RHzrjEfjD4VqHznkdx_ZR1R4zH7vML6rgzJ_KzutJQdB8AJ1REj8L3tKucrNbvtbVYWKvPp-m93mX0FcXABXQ2-6e4mdT8QEaPwXq1th1NdjdqpbLsLs1KaxYQkJGA-Q/s2981/ac.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2981" data-original-width="2173" height="736" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO2rkwjQi24ueP0pu8fhHa3reAahvdikvH-liTVD6d15BmsuzKRL6Sr3eZh-RHzrjEfjD4VqHznkdx_ZR1R4zH7vML6rgzJ_KzutJQdB8AJ1REj8L3tKucrNbvtbVYWKvPp-m93mX0FcXABXQ2-6e4mdT8QEaPwXq1th1NdjdqpbLsLs1KaxYQkJGA-Q/w536-h736/ac.jpg" width="536" /></a></div><div><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Natalia Goncharova, <i>The Clock</i></span></b></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcd7yY9-mTJPzD1t5YWmBDvYo39kb8GWnV-os66iOvhQpc11PPYZZ7tTsoZiETgBNb7SgUVtv45vdwfoaLV9yr_I5D5wMVhdGSSGJs_1hcUH8X6ins3pqyrE1sOkkNWsoKPhAUEEo2Gb_8phxJLbiBJcgzQeljpHP1mhS8Oaz8ouj16-z2ZLphBwcZhg/s3320/ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3320" data-original-width="1880" height="847" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcd7yY9-mTJPzD1t5YWmBDvYo39kb8GWnV-os66iOvhQpc11PPYZZ7tTsoZiETgBNb7SgUVtv45vdwfoaLV9yr_I5D5wMVhdGSSGJs_1hcUH8X6ins3pqyrE1sOkkNWsoKPhAUEEo2Gb_8phxJLbiBJcgzQeljpHP1mhS8Oaz8ouj16-z2ZLphBwcZhg/w479-h847/ad.jpg" width="479" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Upper is Leger, lower is Edmund Kesting, <i>Rote Sichel</i>, 1927</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1fcYNs1Ptcu72tOrT0APgF_ZZIpwCHPUXaPhW5YN0FYP2KF32aSbJDLAnfqRiwBd-Hj96MSq21ehEoWJCGrnvxlqT_wIzzVkHbXzaN4bAK5pa2x9_Le4duuOQ-ta2fQO0AZ0j0JrKkHq4fnwKxHZxy9VfmMMTgGUW1fmMwFQaZo0i7sR4HtM0XPE-_Q/s2948/ae.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2948" data-original-width="2396" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1fcYNs1Ptcu72tOrT0APgF_ZZIpwCHPUXaPhW5YN0FYP2KF32aSbJDLAnfqRiwBd-Hj96MSq21ehEoWJCGrnvxlqT_wIzzVkHbXzaN4bAK5pa2x9_Le4duuOQ-ta2fQO0AZ0j0JrKkHq4fnwKxHZxy9VfmMMTgGUW1fmMwFQaZo0i7sR4HtM0XPE-_Q/w520-h640/ae.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Otto Dix</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALltNxeLtQQlh8VvVV4Dwf-jCYBX3UULBlEzerj4gLohXLIQvL5TvLhHJqJmxWwfk5t9634lx6IyA_jVRkjK19Gyi2TlPklTXyGkFxn7tAAyhFKjXQ7Ekf86yZAT1GdFtzAXg_Dy3H3G1uZViX7kOJlpl76LzZVRlXrAIx8lw_73tDsUdpOQh0dwKcA/s2888/af.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2888" data-original-width="2278" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALltNxeLtQQlh8VvVV4Dwf-jCYBX3UULBlEzerj4gLohXLIQvL5TvLhHJqJmxWwfk5t9634lx6IyA_jVRkjK19Gyi2TlPklTXyGkFxn7tAAyhFKjXQ7Ekf86yZAT1GdFtzAXg_Dy3H3G1uZViX7kOJlpl76LzZVRlXrAIx8lw_73tDsUdpOQh0dwKcA/w506-h640/af.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Heinrich Vogeler</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9rmDy7krV3zgN52fthKawbV3MMszpIzt-2wrd-y8C4udj3Zggs6LUQJKFWzp-DilMgnuKOUnqSADe6N2VAQ9Zc5xYAE4ysFb7B4odEI1EZFVgS8bMd1L8pbivQdlY3vqiQlae_UQ8Sm_r2_URmX95-TZkCy3BL4suBF5qJTdOD_3ApEGAVa9p6NVEQ/s2595/ag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1hx0HJT9JN9RYw5IohglSyHQh_X-p8XdK9Izw3hOm2otxun2NcW3PENYrHJR-rOuw5wFczfUPbrlPJx0J2LfHD47uQC1VtctmS1rXo0ALvxnmCKIsWKvHhCgpwgBS6zUTQ7Q5ki-ekfOTwubjV2pLek5cVQfEmQUZ-eXLGnqFNXiusbFRYCHONpbxsg/s2612/ai.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2612" data-original-width="2069" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1hx0HJT9JN9RYw5IohglSyHQh_X-p8XdK9Izw3hOm2otxun2NcW3PENYrHJR-rOuw5wFczfUPbrlPJx0J2LfHD47uQC1VtctmS1rXo0ALvxnmCKIsWKvHhCgpwgBS6zUTQ7Q5ki-ekfOTwubjV2pLek5cVQfEmQUZ-eXLGnqFNXiusbFRYCHONpbxsg/w506-h640/ai.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paul Fuhrmann, <i>Am Bahnhof</i> (1930)</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMsDH3NOAYYNOEqOx25wPxnnKkcjudA6DJsPbCgQ0BTKN87UKY-fAAv2Ly7H7ncOlkQBMTjcXziVaO8SJX2jnY5zjSZNdWo8fAPFUhLc43lVp_hI5TfXFca_9E8xaAALvlEURF1wopn9lj8yr9xlVl8dVlDnOamrqH7NvqRSmYgwpYiX_IL1MjonQbzA/s2501/aj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="2501" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMsDH3NOAYYNOEqOx25wPxnnKkcjudA6DJsPbCgQ0BTKN87UKY-fAAv2Ly7H7ncOlkQBMTjcXziVaO8SJX2jnY5zjSZNdWo8fAPFUhLc43lVp_hI5TfXFca_9E8xaAALvlEURF1wopn9lj8yr9xlVl8dVlDnOamrqH7NvqRSmYgwpYiX_IL1MjonQbzA/w640-h636/aj.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oskar Nerlinger, <i>The Early Train</i> (1928)</span></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbXKLPuDYgLYadFEnakXQJBp3RyzYPz6Z40nwrYvyP7ayrzV01lmm-L3q8fZh_Ju7Ihl56ZePlC3HX1czYfmxhjAYzku1uWpM2giTl4E6Av4ujH3f8mCEJZqSeGaOiEfFSFIY-y-5r7C4hRJ2dShnya4Lg-0hHDLi1W8Uie48r5k3C51gSKiai5s7wIA/s2845/ak.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="2284" data-original-width="2845" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbXKLPuDYgLYadFEnakXQJBp3RyzYPz6Z40nwrYvyP7ayrzV01lmm-L3q8fZh_Ju7Ihl56ZePlC3HX1czYfmxhjAYzku1uWpM2giTl4E6Av4ujH3f8mCEJZqSeGaOiEfFSFIY-y-5r7C4hRJ2dShnya4Lg-0hHDLi1W8Uie48r5k3C51gSKiai5s7wIA/w640-h516/ak.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Franz Radziwill, <i>Der Hafen II</i> (1930) </span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2581" data-original-width="3473" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-HCPSUSJfx5lbgzMQMX366BvIwzn3Sx8XlKw23mLvPzlus4T_Hi0tcityiFWKe5XF6QZEcu1d_jcU354VW9qAKbuLFb6ajEY58xPeLMWB6aq9dkR8oaVaE1Z6p9MdEP0oJCnIU-7k1z_ntmnBwgtYQzi9thw_uEO1Edp7HoUfmufynX5SpKARkPUgMg/w640-h478/an.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Franz Radziwill, <i>Flandern (Wohin in dieser Welt?)</i>, 1940-50</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfJOfzdVQIXMURVnO3jG8H8qXq2u6Ff6Jbzu9atNDSa_pN0fEeIe1BWutng2GGZW44qbag-1FVZmCoYEN61pN_9bWhWyg3zhDgTeizFvY0F5TpddF-wuqjR44DTVg2tWHb26ADsk2SMX_mO4FOYidmzp-T2OlHvog63XH9tBIDPaqyADDMp4BL2BZBg/s2709/ao.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2073" data-original-width="2709" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfJOfzdVQIXMURVnO3jG8H8qXq2u6Ff6Jbzu9atNDSa_pN0fEeIe1BWutng2GGZW44qbag-1FVZmCoYEN61pN_9bWhWyg3zhDgTeizFvY0F5TpddF-wuqjR44DTVg2tWHb26ADsk2SMX_mO4FOYidmzp-T2OlHvog63XH9tBIDPaqyADDMp4BL2BZBg/w640-h492/ao.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Alice Lex-Nerlinger, <i>Field Grey Creates Dividends</i> (1931/1961)</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2116" data-original-width="2330" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBn13eBJpZ_3IyG0itzFHpuFw5xrwsSRMZ8PAn-SQy7ye9p0F6OSk-XjhDVHu3Qf97MdRasASJh-RE2LnggJqg_3wod7rpq3s1om9RjGBfsDpILHt0DtmOiQo1vQDtJ91YJIqjmchGk1jKHeOsNb7Z6Ft5Q1T8PMOzG308Opo7ng9MuwNd-GtlriABlQ/w640-h584/as.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Carlo Mense, Double Portrait <i>(Rabbi with Young Woman)</i> 1926</span></b><p></p></div>Phil Beardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075686435889440881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65501308820871089.post-58453097579115609072023-09-27T17:50:00.000+01:002023-09-27T17:50:07.272+01:00The Fortnight in September<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpTwRUChUb9jBxeZZe-ywZSbyLsRLsUQVVlCMunPujZpfSlxpKt348SqWa9p5_7-P6rqGq263w7zIzumxdTaKZIEHGLu1vtr7Fcqp73QLWISSyPYpdZ8i6V90VNyOWcHT39_NqRAeSLT0k5_c2D-GbkfSU9aquiDUyuxrzWgMcP5dHFwGgiNPo748-ew/s1637/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1637" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpTwRUChUb9jBxeZZe-ywZSbyLsRLsUQVVlCMunPujZpfSlxpKt348SqWa9p5_7-P6rqGq263w7zIzumxdTaKZIEHGLu1vtr7Fcqp73QLWISSyPYpdZ8i6V90VNyOWcHT39_NqRAeSLT0k5_c2D-GbkfSU9aquiDUyuxrzWgMcP5dHFwGgiNPo748-ew/w640-h404/a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The advancing tide has driven the holidaymakers ever closer to the sea wall to the point where they huddle together in uncomfortable proximity. Just such a scene is described in R C Sherriff’s novel, <i>The Fortnight in September</i>, along with the social anxiety it gives rise to. It tells the story of a lower middle-class South London family meticulously planning and making the best of their annual late summer holiday in the south coast resort of Bognor - when the holiday ends the novel ends too. Published in 1931 just a few years after Sheriff’s First World War drama, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey%27s_End">Journey’s End</a></i>, had been a great success on the stage on both sides of the Atlantic. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._C._Sherriff">Sherriff</a> followed up his great drama with a novel in which drama is entirely absent. No action or event is too insignificant to be described in detail along with the inner voices of the characters as they attempt to conduct themselves with decency and propriety while at all costs avoiding stepping into the sea of embarrassment that never ceases to threaten. Painfully aware of their modest status in the hierarchy of social class, the head of the family must lead his dependants safely through the social minefield and he’s never more tormented than when he finds himself in the company of his social superiors with every muscle tensed to avoid transgressing the boundaries of class.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMjYRgEIX3XQKnR8JGST692CtQv45j4cVM4Lu-pjXop52D1qvaXBdXQOBDn2RX6lp0P0kHaI8IbYUc16kib3VtdC4rZWUVxAqk3a_PNwnTj7RKSRauap6hHA2T7um2ueSj_daf0K2vQVs12DpVHveDJtDCGdpxRAFpsT8i4p0bpfRBm4Bzaj4n_JTjA/s1624/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1624" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMjYRgEIX3XQKnR8JGST692CtQv45j4cVM4Lu-pjXop52D1qvaXBdXQOBDn2RX6lp0P0kHaI8IbYUc16kib3VtdC4rZWUVxAqk3a_PNwnTj7RKSRauap6hHA2T7um2ueSj_daf0K2vQVs12DpVHveDJtDCGdpxRAFpsT8i4p0bpfRBm4Bzaj4n_JTjA/w640-h412/b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Stevens family is a model of English decency and emotional restraint, ever polite and respectful to all, never allowing a mean thought to enter their heads. Their ambitions are tempered by realism and they share the capacity to take pleasure in simple things. They enjoy each other’s company much more than the company of strangers. Routine is what holds the family together and builds a fortress against negligence and chaos. In the Great March to Bognor, everyone must play their part as assigned by Father and his masterplan. Before it has even begun, he contemplates the end of the holiday and the accompanying sense of melancholy - his glass is resolutely half empty. The holiday is the single great annual event in their lives and has followed the same pattern for 15 years.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS1JkD8mq4kbA7aG0hoscGujtIA0Uy4KSE2magb3KWsF8NlZ_hN-2Ixmy8YdTc5sETxFB39WbA-BK5bgpR4inEuyKMP6PfSUZU0OwPKI1mpVtuNTUrwsG1Z3yx8l3AVhcXAgNi1WVhQb1KGEJsAUe-e8DhFOFT0mTEQ7fOu-t769eIOQz35EeOTJPiDg/s1663/c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1061" data-original-width="1663" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS1JkD8mq4kbA7aG0hoscGujtIA0Uy4KSE2magb3KWsF8NlZ_hN-2Ixmy8YdTc5sETxFB39WbA-BK5bgpR4inEuyKMP6PfSUZU0OwPKI1mpVtuNTUrwsG1Z3yx8l3AVhcXAgNi1WVhQb1KGEJsAUe-e8DhFOFT0mTEQ7fOu-t769eIOQz35EeOTJPiDg/w640-h408/c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In those 15 years the children have grown up while the boarding house where they stay has aged and decayed. It’s impossible to ignore the declining quality of service and the impact of the ageing process on their hostess. All of which signals that change is on the horizon - and change is the enemy of routine. Another sign of change is the growing independence of the older children as they move into a future outside the family. Mary is the oldest, at 19 increasingly aware of the male gaze and in a mood to take her chances with the opposite sex. After a year working in a white collar job, Dick (17) is restless and has begun to dream of training to become an architect. Forces are gathering that will drive the family apart. Quietly and incrementally, the universe that Father created is collapsing around him. His own future is equally uncertain - his much valued post as secretary to the local football club has deviously been taken away from him. At work his thoughts of promotion to senior management have come to an end with a discreet message that this can never happen. Mother is the least contented character and the least likely to articulate her unhappiness. She scarcely has a voice and her very existence is overlooked by all while she labours night and day at the endless domestic tasks that make family life possible. The sea terrifies her, yet when she goes missing at the seaside, the family display only limited concern. Typical of the silly goose to get lost and cause a lot of unnecessary fuss.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ejQQ6VCdahfM2ivo4E22KYMTPZhdlFCp1mKRkQK5-XBQ_vpEoxvMBAYvBj4WgpMCOhMJFx6GsDfQkeiPCwmaP0TGezOMmOa1ktKLIhZNqYAtIWSQubFSAvsZZTPlnFX464Bbi1seAFlbwJzkPljd27kk6B9VMTaY16bDUkyGL4EX4RD-sajkUZ1NWg/s1632/d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1632" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ejQQ6VCdahfM2ivo4E22KYMTPZhdlFCp1mKRkQK5-XBQ_vpEoxvMBAYvBj4WgpMCOhMJFx6GsDfQkeiPCwmaP0TGezOMmOa1ktKLIhZNqYAtIWSQubFSAvsZZTPlnFX464Bbi1seAFlbwJzkPljd27kk6B9VMTaY16bDUkyGL4EX4RD-sajkUZ1NWg/w640-h406/d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sherriff created a single event in the life of an unexceptional family and explored some major themes as he recorded their addiction to ritual and resistance to change. There’s no peace of mind to be had while survival seems poised on the edge of disintegration. Despite eternal vigilance not everything can be controlled. How to live with unfairness and small failures. Loss is one of life’s great certainties and Sherriff placed it at the heart of this book with his subtle account of the passage of time eroding everything that we value and depend upon for emotional wellbeing.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyaX9TqmiYnGOf_EFK-8F_znM_j5zTBZ_mR_XO9u9N0KjdA_hZMcSmk9zt0T_ZxEMUtDc6n5AzTGh0oO2eVnEtSHm3ot4JBz-E5nuaKn_mOsBPKJQAGjWeQ5EX260nRqBlVkHXJF8Fv5A8r2YsE3nzQss7Q7RkVym6hszyIaowIluS2py6gJkwEfdRCw/s1648/e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1648" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyaX9TqmiYnGOf_EFK-8F_znM_j5zTBZ_mR_XO9u9N0KjdA_hZMcSmk9zt0T_ZxEMUtDc6n5AzTGh0oO2eVnEtSHm3ot4JBz-E5nuaKn_mOsBPKJQAGjWeQ5EX260nRqBlVkHXJF8Fv5A8r2YsE3nzQss7Q7RkVym6hszyIaowIluS2py6gJkwEfdRCw/w640-h402/e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2794" data-original-width="4207" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqUccQ1CZqZbEAZLSXNRHKiL7Fp9-84Tj3FftyvDNTZJ9ANJwBZ2AFmJrCKhIMjg3SEfBSpja5d7w7SpjjZ5kg6wpNniIhvuypmd9OIrBExhg0alvIT2B2KmsuM8038Hugiy6CC3-0efZpFffd0nPKAZ91bhB3meTbmUxexv7znTqwMt8ViKpF9E5TdA/w640-h426/b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The station at Bülowstraße was on Berlin’s first U-Bahn line and opened in 1902. It is now on line U2 on a short section of elevated track that runs from Gleisdreieck as far as Nollendorfplatz after which it continues underground. Despite heavy war damage and a 20 year period out of use (1972-1993) due to geo-politics, the building exterior is as close to original condition as any other example of its age. Comparison with the period postcard shows that little has been lost other than ornamental flourishes on the train shed and some decorative ironwork. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_M%C3%B6hring">Bruno Möhring</a> (1863-1929), Jugendstil specialist and skyscraper enthusiast, was the architect - elsewhere in the city he designed the Swinemünder Brücke (1902-1905) that crosses the railway tracks to the east of the station at Gesundbrunnen. Another of Möhring’s notable achievements - the Jugendstil Machine Hall at Zeche Zollern colliery in Dortmund - was featured in this blog in 2017 and can be seen <a href="https://buttes-chaumont.blogspot.com/2017/07/once-upon-time-in-dortmund.html">here</a>.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YSrJDczgqU6mrvVVjE3snHA4DYfZM9fOXGDgHdinNEo2cq3pJPpuOAlnqxsnUXJN-DlHURksncBj8IGtKY6LbsbbxNyF6suO7GbnCZ0CxbMvW2mwM06dumOoSnp-KAgY0-K868jxDJutJM1uA2cREKoJOC5xo2imRv_i6nRZUB7GeoY2Zi6TIQ5mIQ/s1626/c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="1626" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YSrJDczgqU6mrvVVjE3snHA4DYfZM9fOXGDgHdinNEo2cq3pJPpuOAlnqxsnUXJN-DlHURksncBj8IGtKY6LbsbbxNyF6suO7GbnCZ0CxbMvW2mwM06dumOoSnp-KAgY0-K868jxDJutJM1uA2cREKoJOC5xo2imRv_i6nRZUB7GeoY2Zi6TIQ5mIQ/w640-h418/c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUPIKIMzWudGE1W8rDhne2asgVnDMSJ2hl8PMdtnELTr1WVoyOKcMw2Ss88h8vOVnVOlZTzh2dMAZ-TiK6kBEyWvtuNkI11K7f9xEPda9q8vCzFuS8NlJa0AIYBuAgBvnoHqRBBNbK1wQqGz2MLodlxmr1xRaKuEwWl2CuuDNvtTNUC3SZhgegQmiHOg/s3648/d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2422" data-original-width="3648" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUPIKIMzWudGE1W8rDhne2asgVnDMSJ2hl8PMdtnELTr1WVoyOKcMw2Ss88h8vOVnVOlZTzh2dMAZ-TiK6kBEyWvtuNkI11K7f9xEPda9q8vCzFuS8NlJa0AIYBuAgBvnoHqRBBNbK1wQqGz2MLodlxmr1xRaKuEwWl2CuuDNvtTNUC3SZhgegQmiHOg/w640-h426/d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Phil Beardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075686435889440881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65501308820871089.post-64437946389443462932023-08-31T14:44:00.000+01:002023-08-31T14:44:01.846+01:00Airways 1939<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-5IDpd7KzQE5BPXmsiLMPhkpt3eKm0ni3Fjqu0PWsSHPwnouOiC03LZ-ypHZDaok4bS019GC1KpTQIcmuCEGHzWRYfABF8h0VWWtwjLSxc67n3weF4id29VXuaSc1h-aJN1hpt5y87PYqhCQvsIhAh5DOPBCFyGK9QEiVJGT6H-J3KJ9WbNRdxP_JFQ/s3226/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3226" data-original-width="2409" height="851" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-5IDpd7KzQE5BPXmsiLMPhkpt3eKm0ni3Fjqu0PWsSHPwnouOiC03LZ-ypHZDaok4bS019GC1KpTQIcmuCEGHzWRYfABF8h0VWWtwjLSxc67n3weF4id29VXuaSc1h-aJN1hpt5y87PYqhCQvsIhAh5DOPBCFyGK9QEiVJGT6H-J3KJ9WbNRdxP_JFQ/w637-h851/a.jpg" width="637" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a slim pictorial board covered, large format picture book for children published by Blackie in 1939. There are 13 colour illustrations (including the cover) and most of them bear the signature of T E North who has been identified as Thomas Edward North (1916-1985), a lifelong resident of Hull - his career has been well documented at <a href="https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2009/08/t-e-north.html">Bear Alley Books</a>. <i>Airways</i> is the earliest example of his illustration work I’ve seen, all the more remarkable for having been produced at the age of 23. How North broke into the world of book illustration is an unknown story but he did well to find his work published by the illustrious firm of Blackie. Unlike most of his contemporaries, North was unafraid to experiment with unusual angles and unorthodox compositions in search of visual dynamics. There’s a formal crispness and clarity that wouldn’t be seen in his post-war production. When his career resumed after war service in the RAF he seems to have specialised in transport related material in ever smaller formats, mass produced pocket sized books for children. The illustration style is conventional for the period - descriptive but nothing more. At the end are two examples of card covered illustrated books and a jigsaw - whether the latter were based on new material or recycled images from books would be interesting to know.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhitYoh6Oq-AphClc5uwLn_nfGKx06lFglGBQCTXu2PfMMoU-KjsFuTWQjDyg073zXY8-eNFn9rm5q9rjHRbUifGJQGK5dExipHRXF3pukBCqY62fU-M5qwS2uTeV_nq93JEZx2tkVPDVo-8FUNDX55E2y43yQkX-z2390gRnYfKHjSJgoNMumRGvsckg/s3548/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2351" data-original-width="3548" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhitYoh6Oq-AphClc5uwLn_nfGKx06lFglGBQCTXu2PfMMoU-KjsFuTWQjDyg073zXY8-eNFn9rm5q9rjHRbUifGJQGK5dExipHRXF3pukBCqY62fU-M5qwS2uTeV_nq93JEZx2tkVPDVo-8FUNDX55E2y43yQkX-z2390gRnYfKHjSJgoNMumRGvsckg/w640-h426/b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-oP4m-FgdSmkrzeP12jkvivQVbxa5QEgf4Qz-zz6Gsx24dLh-O9X7tGf3hlO-jrjfc8RWl4Q-uuVId7eoufaudGiOKKnfiNK3BKMMZBo2YcdG5m5w3B2xxS2HBx2oZfKkdPA6j1NTMQrJpP-OYfmYKNdSMzz1o0l6ThJ_7r5A5v02q95_nX7zDBFucQ/s3945/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2528" data-original-width="3945" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-oP4m-FgdSmkrzeP12jkvivQVbxa5QEgf4Qz-zz6Gsx24dLh-O9X7tGf3hlO-jrjfc8RWl4Q-uuVId7eoufaudGiOKKnfiNK3BKMMZBo2YcdG5m5w3B2xxS2HBx2oZfKkdPA6j1NTMQrJpP-OYfmYKNdSMzz1o0l6ThJ_7r5A5v02q95_nX7zDBFucQ/w640-h412/a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The westward rails run out at Penzance, there’s nowhere else to go except back. After 326 miles from Paddington it’s the end of the line. A first station opened in 1852 and in 1859 it was connected to London with the opening of the Royal Albert Bridge across the River Tamar. In 1876 a new and larger station was built and for a century or so, the Cornish Main Line was the first choice of travellers and holiday makers heading for the resorts of the far South West. When traffic declined sharply as passengers piled into family cars for the journey west, rail managers responded by cutting services and track work to balance the books. Today’s station is substantially the layout built by the GWR in 1937 but despite all the rebuilds and extensions nobody ever thought it worth providing the sort of grand entrance its importance might have merited. The single modest entrance to the cramped concourse is via the side of the building. Only the overall roof offers any sense of occasion. If the Thatcher government had implemented the recommendations of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpell_Report">Serpell Report</a> in 1983 there would now be no railway lines in Cornwall (or Devon and Somerset for that matter).</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcEp7OX_ql61GuC4Tcpcwe81_dGTCRRudkp1wbecF9Rp8j5p-XNRqk5KMSYIQ8tayjL3Yd1F55EiAjfPMvzDE1dQFnlwiDNWS2pDghlRYApEKSfz3IUwz65AHq8LB-4e3wokCUpSgJFgE8XKq8KMsE7aRPYAQvRbhXsG9D_3mMfJTRCsIjC-8JHDUjA/s1500/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1500" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcEp7OX_ql61GuC4Tcpcwe81_dGTCRRudkp1wbecF9Rp8j5p-XNRqk5KMSYIQ8tayjL3Yd1F55EiAjfPMvzDE1dQFnlwiDNWS2pDghlRYApEKSfz3IUwz65AHq8LB-4e3wokCUpSgJFgE8XKq8KMsE7aRPYAQvRbhXsG9D_3mMfJTRCsIjC-8JHDUjA/w640-h426/b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90-0Ub9BXnHGFpyYA7IQP36kE4XMQBB9waVadkLKrdUuv336EFiplW-dP0eaDuzqYnLvlh9zL4DNcyd0s8t2GKOM7HHx3WtMnF8dTXoRHKmNZWdKHmwDapQWqRqR6u73Bytkke42VsNDOlw22CCrHwVt0kWb4Favs5xROH_QNrsRfiUYFL3jwY7pDOA/s1500/c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90-0Ub9BXnHGFpyYA7IQP36kE4XMQBB9waVadkLKrdUuv336EFiplW-dP0eaDuzqYnLvlh9zL4DNcyd0s8t2GKOM7HHx3WtMnF8dTXoRHKmNZWdKHmwDapQWqRqR6u73Bytkke42VsNDOlw22CCrHwVt0kWb4Favs5xROH_QNrsRfiUYFL3jwY7pDOA/w640-h426/c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The overview below of Penzance Station approximates the vantage point of Stanhope Forbes when he painted "A Terminus in the West" in 1925 when it was a 2 platform station. The GWR commissioned Forbes to make paintings of Cornish subjects for publicity purposes and the <a href="https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-terminus-penzance-station-cornwall-9363/view_as/grid/search/venue:national-railway-museum-3646--makers:stanhope-alexander-forbes-18571947/page/1">Penzance station painting</a> is now in the collection of the National Railway Museum. <a href="https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/actor:forbes-stanhope-alexander-18571947/page/5">Forbes</a> was born in Dublin where his father was manager of the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland suggesting an affinity with railway subjects. He also produced poster designs for the <a href="https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/the-permanent-way-by-stanhope-forbes/">LMS</a> in his characteristically robust realism style, all of which brought some relief from the pilchards and fisherfolk. Penzance is a station to be valued for its remoteness, its individuality - the only overnight sleeper train to run in England terminates here - and the blunt fact that there’s no further to go.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbCVXuqjmtUVeKcI3rO1cg0NWF-HeCJfRObIlRg5pEeJAGrwW2aIXdrU4PcfrxpKz0b4iXd1yCM9YZEta5jzooyMU_cwshhikNYqZ-njqkD38lTKXklQgdCf6OvxAOSH_HSGerSvyODwsVB-4BA6thA_F4znmEZmTBUOhquEBqlFNVtBKDEbtnjbJ2Yw/s1500/d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbCVXuqjmtUVeKcI3rO1cg0NWF-HeCJfRObIlRg5pEeJAGrwW2aIXdrU4PcfrxpKz0b4iXd1yCM9YZEta5jzooyMU_cwshhikNYqZ-njqkD38lTKXklQgdCf6OvxAOSH_HSGerSvyODwsVB-4BA6thA_F4znmEZmTBUOhquEBqlFNVtBKDEbtnjbJ2Yw/w640-h426/d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Phil Beardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075686435889440881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65501308820871089.post-46185831917095478112023-07-21T13:41:00.000+01:002023-07-21T13:41:05.653+01:00Arts & Crafts on the NHS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDB8by2SWCm7uMkUcRvRGEbrPicPtd2ydL8jBTFUzub2Dux6ba50O8OBN6zxi_yC3mQsR_-CglTbmL7WspTVcU141OL2W7jGcogTCGhhSv40JJv7vVe2Pn4WpwE32r1zLWcyVd4SicZSO9zZv9kKMVUVEB25vkS8rFQ6r02WL_2NjNZyaxXUa35UUMAQ/s2835/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="2835" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDB8by2SWCm7uMkUcRvRGEbrPicPtd2ydL8jBTFUzub2Dux6ba50O8OBN6zxi_yC3mQsR_-CglTbmL7WspTVcU141OL2W7jGcogTCGhhSv40JJv7vVe2Pn4WpwE32r1zLWcyVd4SicZSO9zZv9kKMVUVEB25vkS8rFQ6r02WL_2NjNZyaxXUa35UUMAQ/w640-h426/a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Winsford Cottage Hospital</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s easy to imagine the scene. Outside his church near Piccadilly, the Reverend Charles Voysey listens attentively as a wealthy widow from his congregation describes her plan to honour her late husband’s memory by funding the construction of a Cottage Hospital to serve the rural communities close to her country house in North Devon. “My eldest son is a successful practising architect, a man of sober habits and an industrious disposition and I’m sure your altruistic proposal would appeal to him. If you will permit me, I shall effect an introduction.” Due to his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism">theistic</a> views, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Voysey_(theist)">Rev. Voysey</a> had antagonised the Anglican hierarchy and like all good dissidents he launched his own church, attracting some wealthy and influential followers. One of whom was the recently widowed benefactor, Mrs Maria Louise Medley of Winsford Towers. Designs for <a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1105657?section=official-list-entry">Winsford Cottage Hospital</a> were drawn up in 1899 by C F A Voysey who over the previous decade had refined his own very individual Arts & Crafts influenced style designing substantial homes for affluent clients, including H G Wells.</span></p><p>
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There was a generous entrance hall and a linear layout with rooms accessed from a corridor with a mosaic floor of glazed sandstone tiles that ran the length of the building. Furnishings and fittings drew heavily on Voysey’s favoured decorative devices (hearts, spades, etc) to enhance the homely and welcoming feel that he strove for, all the while scrupulously avoiding anything excessive. Agricultural labour was the main source of employment in the area, wages were low and housing conditions often primitive. The subsidised care and treatment offered by the new facility was much needed. When it opened in 1900 there were only seven beds which in stages rose to fifteen by 1998 when it closed. It had been absorbed into the NHS since 1948 but many of its original features were still intact although some, like the mosaic floor, had been covered up for many years.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYo6XNZ7FczT6xMeWdIrh7sPBtbW0XV-2tPE43L5RQWwoz0G7atzVSQ0YBnWvn7y2MxBTkYu4Si9zXLiMPUR_13B8C3uWCiCU_VlPoFI9MxUMQ9eAylPHw-g2Bd86o3b9k12ggGHZWamFqruKv4VR5L8GFkDZUoECsinPcOUz6TGTlHGnptrdhYSxpSA/s4032/c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="4032" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYo6XNZ7FczT6xMeWdIrh7sPBtbW0XV-2tPE43L5RQWwoz0G7atzVSQ0YBnWvn7y2MxBTkYu4Si9zXLiMPUR_13B8C3uWCiCU_VlPoFI9MxUMQ9eAylPHw-g2Bd86o3b9k12ggGHZWamFqruKv4VR5L8GFkDZUoECsinPcOUz6TGTlHGnptrdhYSxpSA/w640-h426/c.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There was a train station (Halwill Junction) only two minutes walk away that connected this remote rural village with Okehampton and Exeter to the south and east. Just to the north of the station three separate lines radiated - one to Bude, one to Launceston and Padstow, and a third to Torrington and Barnstaple. An abattoir stood alongside the station and trainloads of carcases were dispatched and daily trains of produce passed through enroute for London markets. In summer, frequent holiday trains bound for North Devon and North Cornwall resorts, including the famous <i>Atlantic Coast Express</i> ran to and fro. Voysey thoughtfully designed the children’s ward at the hospital to give the young patients a panoramic view of activity at the station.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioO0VVx0v5cPg3f9RMcXqclsz98B-VIQTUa0CWwVKJbvZ_T7It6cOr8C8MGnOnqM2FPH_8PvmJl4dSzYDgE9eq5DULQ9tQVIYhuQ99BW3ykR7zid1E_0oo659d78CBAjBfI45AEeM6IGQfB10lq1hgQ9vCZVfElCrL10aQ_JyMsjsCwuErNEdei3ZQiQ/s4032/d.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="4032" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioO0VVx0v5cPg3f9RMcXqclsz98B-VIQTUa0CWwVKJbvZ_T7It6cOr8C8MGnOnqM2FPH_8PvmJl4dSzYDgE9eq5DULQ9tQVIYhuQ99BW3ykR7zid1E_0oo659d78CBAjBfI45AEeM6IGQfB10lq1hgQ9vCZVfElCrL10aQ_JyMsjsCwuErNEdei3ZQiQ/w640-h426/d.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 2019 the Landmark Trust completed a long programme of work to restore original features and convert the west wing to holiday accommodation - a suite of repurposed rooms sensitively accessorised in period furnishings and decor. Most of the walls were re-plastered and the roof of Delabole slate was completely replaced. In the corridor, teams of volunteers laboriously scraped away the screed that concealed the golden mosaic floor to reveal it in all its glory.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRjQgcWUuZGHgBQnC2fOoiiyWC3GPYwfBJ3FA_yN-oUUSfOtE0Iw-tIB-MVSKvaxYIdA2wuyXLoQULVkP_2Df2f76APK2LNMzd5mPrpWjRcvJuQwneMhXuM_LDf8Pxw2zJ8PJTS64-UaxAOuUzYAM1vV6uoR_JZoXR5b803mLQCSjpXfiOFxvdNm6qfQ/s2835/e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="2835" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRjQgcWUuZGHgBQnC2fOoiiyWC3GPYwfBJ3FA_yN-oUUSfOtE0Iw-tIB-MVSKvaxYIdA2wuyXLoQULVkP_2Df2f76APK2LNMzd5mPrpWjRcvJuQwneMhXuM_LDf8Pxw2zJ8PJTS64-UaxAOuUzYAM1vV6uoR_JZoXR5b803mLQCSjpXfiOFxvdNm6qfQ/w640-h426/e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrBcQ_WJuzYrWB0E1oKGgftGRozlQyGkK7VljGPjuGaW3UDShSat3dAic5F-N4G2VYSIf5vbpyhwRl17IVTQsJF8P3Yx_-ZdoJEH4wTDBVzE_SpA5MPY45uOpE6eZbtAV5_Eifo9szKCBewxYAxa-6To47WY-NC-Ctwz2AzBdnAASoaACFfGdNEmQqHQ/s4032/f.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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He served in the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy as well as pursuing a career as a surveyor and inventor. In 1831-32 when sailing in the Royal Navy in South America he surveyed some potential routes for a future Panama Canal. The value of his pioneering work was recognised by de Lesseps 50 years later when the canal was finally constructed. Four years later he surveyed the Corinth Isthmus and proposed a route for a canal, for which he was, many decades later, honoured by the Greek sovereign. By 1840 he was sailing with the Pacific Steam Navigation Company in South America for whose benefit he set about developing business opportunities. In Chile he established the first coal mine in the continent, after which he explored nitrates in Chile and located guano deposits in Peru. In 1841 he supervised the construction of the first railway on the west coast of South America. Inventions were many and various, including an improved screw propellor for steamships, a desalination treatment for sea water on board ship, an early form of life jacket and anti-fouling paint for the protection of iron hulled ships.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1J94m7vcewskrMQhPj21aCAXn39PcgZr-a-YgjEgQtJ7qfVtwE5y9-RnzhlFv7465mq8Eptoi51674_Rb5eKInjHJEas8iybpUX4uw9bX-91k3eAEXsXW8f8NiShI4rGxGTRmNeiH2oE2Ku-488Z_gtdGGOKxfpxuiAA8RmGFbioFOo82mS2p8Ww5Gg/s1623/starcross.02%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1017" data-original-width="1623" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1J94m7vcewskrMQhPj21aCAXn39PcgZr-a-YgjEgQtJ7qfVtwE5y9-RnzhlFv7465mq8Eptoi51674_Rb5eKInjHJEas8iybpUX4uw9bX-91k3eAEXsXW8f8NiShI4rGxGTRmNeiH2oE2Ku-488Z_gtdGGOKxfpxuiAA8RmGFbioFOo82mS2p8Ww5Gg/w640-h402/starcross.02%20copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Not content with all this, after retirement to Starcross on the Exe Estuary he designed and built the </span><i style="font-size: 11px;">Swan of the Exe </i><span style="font-size: 11px;">in the 1860s, a 10 berth <a href="https://www.devonperspectives.co.uk/swan_of_the_exe.html">sailing yacht</a> in the form of a swan, equipped with two large wings that served as sails. Internal fixtures and fittings were said to be comparable with those in a First Class railway carriage. Four small swan-shaped launches were built, one of which, known as </span><i style="font-size: 11px;">Cygnet</i><span style="font-size: 11px;"> was employed to ferry passengers from the shore to the yacht and can be seen in these postcards.</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">This eccentric vessel became a celebrity in the Exe Estuary and was written up in the press.</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">By the time these postcards were on sale the Peacock Swan was over 50 years old and in the care of his descendants.</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">There’s a mass of conflicting information about its ultimate fate, some witnesses claim to have seen it afloat in the 1930s after which it seems to have become unseaworthy and downgraded to the status of garden ornament. </span><i style="font-size: 11px;">Cygnet</i><span style="font-size: 11px;"> did survive and is now on display at the Museum of Topsham on the opposite bank of the Exe.</span><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">Artist and designer Enid Marx (1902-98) made a colour linocut of the Starcross swans in 1936 that can be seen by following this <a href=" https://pallantbookshop.com/product/swans-print-by-enid-marx/">link</a>.</span></span></div><p></p>Phil Beardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075686435889440881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65501308820871089.post-39638559399927995772023-06-09T18:03:00.000+01:002023-06-09T18:03:00.419+01:00In a Dorset Hollow Way (Part Two)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI2jPPEoSqiyzZ9-rzs7xv-skxVNovA1frd1D53arQGW5TuK4J9qSOXgDM4O2asU9OJ09BKZD31rEwS6FoLkFGu6e9dNxIdBevudrHaCstbvUjQBNO6C4W88bWy5BmFk5YoL2meRQ-8MXHlyr_AhLV59ub8diwA7YCdnSLUC4XmJEz0dt-ygXtHU8/s945/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="709" height="844" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI2jPPEoSqiyzZ9-rzs7xv-skxVNovA1frd1D53arQGW5TuK4J9qSOXgDM4O2asU9OJ09BKZD31rEwS6FoLkFGu6e9dNxIdBevudrHaCstbvUjQBNO6C4W88bWy5BmFk5YoL2meRQ-8MXHlyr_AhLV59ub8diwA7YCdnSLUC4XmJEz0dt-ygXtHU8/w633-h844/a.jpg" width="633" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The soft sandstone sides of the Shutes Lane Hollow Way have become a home for rural graffiti, much of which follows familiar formulae but the exceptions are intriguing. Interestingly there’s virtually no sex or politics to be seen. Names and initials are present in great numbers as are images of eyes (evil and all-seeing) and hearts, most of which are simple incisions. Many have been scratched in haste while some display an interest in more finished letter forms with serifs and downstrokes. A few have taken the time to record aphorisms and more enigmatic text elements. The images of human heads fall broadly into three categories - simple incisions, basic formal modelling and complex modelling with spatial recession. Examples of non-human heads are usually non-specific while reflecting the visual clichés of the horror genre. I have been told I missed the single example of an unambiguously female head but many are gender non-specific. Homer Simpson makes two appearances alongside Stewie from <i>Family Guy</i> but nobody else can easily be recognised. More than a few share the characteristics of Outsider Art and communicate a genuine sense of human despair with conviction on a sliding scale from expressions of mild despondency to an existential scream of desperation drawn from the inorganic depths. There are expressionless eyes that appear to stare back at us as if they’ve been witnesses to unimaginable terrors and mouths that exhale the odour of brimstone. Then there are those that promise more than they can deliver - hours of hard labour carving out an emblem of terror and ending up with something faintly comic. Happiest of all are the unambitious mark makers whose scratchy efforts have a light charm. 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Ancient trackways where centuries of human and livestock traffic together with floodwaters and natural erosion have embedded their presence deep in the rural topography. Exposed tree roots and ferns cling to the steep sides of the pathway as it passes through an arboreal overhead canopy that filters the sunlight. They form most readily in areas where the underlying geology is least resistant such as chalk downland or greensand. The county of Dorset has many examples, of which one of the best known is Shutes Lane on the Symondsbury Estate to the west of Bridport.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_v-DA6I_Ap22MsF4CLzTRqv9JXYvzpQ3tVPzUIYG5ZyWV82AMRhTsag4w2PVdCK2KAkpH0GwNoNqY_HKIF2ZzKeQvMAFBKsnaypjy0VYqTrL_U2J2qKAknsoipOlGf9MpjstOVUg3YKpr3y_kK71mqJEFNaSaiEo0m6RWbKnQp6DBb0gQ-Q1EgM/s1417/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="1417" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_v-DA6I_Ap22MsF4CLzTRqv9JXYvzpQ3tVPzUIYG5ZyWV82AMRhTsag4w2PVdCK2KAkpH0GwNoNqY_HKIF2ZzKeQvMAFBKsnaypjy0VYqTrL_U2J2qKAknsoipOlGf9MpjstOVUg3YKpr3y_kK71mqJEFNaSaiEo0m6RWbKnQp6DBb0gQ-Q1EgM/w640-h426/b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The cumulative effect of atmospheric stillness, dappled, contrasting light effects, luxuriant vegetation, a sense of enclosure and the visual drama of the craggy exposed and weathered geology is enough to stir the spirit of the most materialist explorer. For those of a more Romantic disposition it can be a starting point for all manner of fantastical imaginings and mysterious speculations - the presence of faeries, piskeys and elvish folk can be felt, forever just outside the field of visibility. An alert student of landscape formation will be intrigued by the tactile record of the passage of time measured in centuries - a record more easily read and understood than elsewhere. With the relentless expansion of agri-business and agri-chemicals leading to depleted natural habitats and the irretrievable loss of species diversity, exacerbated by extreme weather events, a new sense of urgency has typified recent literature on the countryside and unsurprisingly writers have turned their attention to the survival of England’s Hollow Ways as places largely untouched by the mixed blessings of scientific advancement.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTEVFVLx0Hju5m47rPK-0Dgw1gAYNAc-1FZ4yA4l2igTIv9OxZoh-vei22D2HZ-NIYD4a17-U5XrOaWORvxMoeDSPw_3Y8C0jJMDAN3UpOJmCw6vt1S0kuaQYKvekl886zpsX1xxLE9Skf2NQkHnFL8nVakK-jitd3UJ7ZgYV40vRSvKEXH2K-0c/s1417/c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="1417" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTEVFVLx0Hju5m47rPK-0Dgw1gAYNAc-1FZ4yA4l2igTIv9OxZoh-vei22D2HZ-NIYD4a17-U5XrOaWORvxMoeDSPw_3Y8C0jJMDAN3UpOJmCw6vt1S0kuaQYKvekl886zpsX1xxLE9Skf2NQkHnFL8nVakK-jitd3UJ7ZgYV40vRSvKEXH2K-0c/w640-h426/c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Walking the mudslides of Shutes Lane in winter can be heavy going but a month without rain has baked the surface of the path to the point that passing feet are grinding it into dust. The sheer scale of it is impressive, massively exceeding others I’ve seen in Somerset and Devon, giving it the appearance of a chasm or canyon. We had the company of three grandchildren under 6 and they walked more than 4 miles without a mutiny. What held their attention was the multiple hand carvings made in the soft sandstone of surpassing eccentricity which will be the subject of Part Two of this post.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEfcif9hL565eezxjUfwaaOLcaLwlUpBe3d41B5I1atdlQoNN8i99HCYy41pR1AsLhukx0q6JwgK3eDGzpByITZAkowfduGL2e7YWu3ZztJ-ub4_EIm2e8Xd7PloVbaO2Y_8kkvMOH-2bXVgj_dWVw3TmMY2ChlRKEr-OfK00FLSnBRwj6ainolVs/s1417/d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="1417" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEfcif9hL565eezxjUfwaaOLcaLwlUpBe3d41B5I1atdlQoNN8i99HCYy41pR1AsLhukx0q6JwgK3eDGzpByITZAkowfduGL2e7YWu3ZztJ-ub4_EIm2e8Xd7PloVbaO2Y_8kkvMOH-2bXVgj_dWVw3TmMY2ChlRKEr-OfK00FLSnBRwj6ainolVs/w640-h426/d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-1PFBrlV9PmdsqlbhAboyYTs6q_Wo9pUOpsm9CXqrESi_7FS-rbSfYUGZC0xToj641POX5XJ3Z_C0_3gvXIzuckaYjeYxT15yjfmeEBxglMfvzRovmxlqNB9CK8Y27b_CZL8vP0AO7DIU_4vJ3fzt3lwnzeEYSZi1_SLvWya2kV0sN6AB7GQoPQ/s1417/e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2657" data-original-width="3985" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOVSkASqyNPUXT6irdF_77gIpkXAXfe1PDGAcexI7-jq94-oXwgcXTV3zyDHj4IFFrYp4zAca1ocLbhqElQISYOhtDqJN3vas2qw_uCNoCEQZr79NJYBa-l9lVXyRW9PD-ZxGBN-aR0GwcbKgDjx4zcRKdu2gA7ZZDs2cTnW0dhyqFPZlhfsd9xtI/w640-h426/a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A trip to Essex is a rare event so we took the opportunity to take a c2c (owned by Trenitalia) train from Barking to East Tilbury where Bata shoemakers established factories and an industrial village in the 1930s. Public awareness of Modernism in 1930s England was minimal and in the Essex village of East Tilbury even less. It must have been a shock to the villagers when Modernism landed on their doorsteps in 1932 as they watched towers of welded steel and reinforced concrete rising out of the potato fields of the former marshland. This marked another stage in the global advance of the Bata Shoe Company founded by Tomas Bata in 1894 in the town of Zlin, Czechoslovakia. A visit to the Ford factory in Detroit had inspired Bata to adapt the latest production line technology to the manufacture of footwear and the company had expanded rapidly across Europe and beyond. Bata was attracted to the social ideals and paternalism of the Garden City movement but his aesthetic preference was for Modernism rather than Arts and Crafts or Tudor revivalism. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVO_qY5-IPY13gW8VLvrbLBL7ylQ697x5UbOjkRgUltKAs-RezzpLf1Yk-InoJLiBHusgM996r6U2-nhtDgkkI-4Zxd6SspYgXu24Z3cosw8-uYfnbr31go80v7dKW4iig4ovO6zo_tjdnW26i3W8oSDTkEo44GKb0UPHwdHsGyJAsWNSu7hpLndo/s4002/b.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="4002" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVO_qY5-IPY13gW8VLvrbLBL7ylQ697x5UbOjkRgUltKAs-RezzpLf1Yk-InoJLiBHusgM996r6U2-nhtDgkkI-4Zxd6SspYgXu24Z3cosw8-uYfnbr31go80v7dKW4iig4ovO6zo_tjdnW26i3W8oSDTkEo44GKb0UPHwdHsGyJAsWNSu7hpLndo/w640-h426/b.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Czechoslovakia was much more receptive to Modernism than Britain and a company team of Czech architects led the project. Planning and design principles that had been established in Zlin were applied in East Tilbury and included material specifications and the use of reinforced concrete frames. As originally planned there would have been 3 ten-storey factory blocks plus a rail connection to what was then part of the LMS railway with sidings for loading and unloading. These were scaled down to five-storey blocks and the rail connection never materialised. When the factory opened in 1933 in the Depression, locals welcomed the employment prospects although their eyes must have been startled by the Modernist geometry and the acreage of glazing in the brand new, multi-storey factory buildings. New housing for workers (a significant number of whom were Czech) and their families along with a clinic, sports ground and village hall were provided and despite the challenge of inducing the English to live under flat roofs, this concern for their welfare was fondly remembered by former employees. Manufacturing in East Tilbury petered out in 2006 by which time the factory buildings had already been disposed of to an uncertain future. The Bata Company is still in business and based in Switzerland. Its products are sold in many countries from East Asia to Latin America, Europe, Africa to Australia but UK is not one of them. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgwRtnVvuiFa8d3jHcCbQpUBUzRvmUSsq4Rbpy4IKDscFwUYjuxUus__LO0LmhAsUgTshnzBcpCKpurI2kLkrFsvdJe_CzAss_yeEyM9tgqxOZnHsCONj6IoVOmEpNDCyzaTCr3qW-2v-nQXXog4iJtD2DEUo-FjToTzsOfZkrtmMk92QnChvKCC0/s4032/c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="4032" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgwRtnVvuiFa8d3jHcCbQpUBUzRvmUSsq4Rbpy4IKDscFwUYjuxUus__LO0LmhAsUgTshnzBcpCKpurI2kLkrFsvdJe_CzAss_yeEyM9tgqxOZnHsCONj6IoVOmEpNDCyzaTCr3qW-2v-nQXXog4iJtD2DEUo-FjToTzsOfZkrtmMk92QnChvKCC0/w640-h426/c.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At the peak in the 1950s there were 3000 employees at East Tilbury and over 200 Bata shops on Britain’s high streets but the business was not immune to Britain’s industrial decline and in the 1960s production began moving overseas, mainly to developing countries. The design influence of the Czech parent had gradually faded away and the worker housing became entirely conventional - semi-detached with pitched roofs. The last company housing was completed in 1966 and in the 1980s the houses were sold off to private buyers in the spirit of the time. The process of adjustment has been difficult. Converting the major buildings for new uses has been expensive and attracting investment has been hard but most of the factory premises have found new tenants over the years and the only major building still in need of renovation is Nelson House (the former leather factory) on top of which sits a water tank, lettered on all four sides with the Bata logo, easily visible to railway passengers almost a mile away.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJubVw3trNeX5o7D-TJv2D7H1ZLhU2OE9CvUqPuzVktZphwLPq4AmPhVAuXNu7rulaB5Yg1i1qyFtWL5BWr3WPubty2TD6ibJiKC42PLXrHun8v-BeqykZkizNwq9t0yiC5makHWW-Mlaz4QgAQVULWQILG3AFl0crjBZp5G-XLoytterCCvEXP2U/s3873/d.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3873" data-original-width="2582" height="944" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJubVw3trNeX5o7D-TJv2D7H1ZLhU2OE9CvUqPuzVktZphwLPq4AmPhVAuXNu7rulaB5Yg1i1qyFtWL5BWr3WPubty2TD6ibJiKC42PLXrHun8v-BeqykZkizNwq9t0yiC5makHWW-Mlaz4QgAQVULWQILG3AFl0crjBZp5G-XLoytterCCvEXP2U/w629-h944/d.jpeg" width="629" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In 1939 Bata completed a new 16-storey HQ in its Czech hometown of Zlin that included a top floor office for the Chief Executive, Jan Bata, designed as a giant lift capable of descending to ground level at the stately pace of 75 cm per minute. The Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 and occupation of Czechoslovakia stopped the project in its tracks and despite Jan Bata’s personal appeals to the Nazi overlords, the factory was closed. The Bata diaspora gathered pace and new businesses were opened in the US and Canada and production expanded in India and Singapore. When Bata refocused on emerging economies it withdrew from most European operations leaving an architectural legacy of design excellence that became a serious problem for planners in Bataville in France and Batadorp in the Netherlands (as well as in East Tilbury) as they grappled with the challenge of adapting the buildings without compromising the features that made them worthy of preservation. There are two further sources of detailed commentary on Bata, the first is a Historic Area Appraisal of East Tilbury carried out for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110812061039/http://batacities.bauhaus-dessau.de/kolleg_xii/docs/east_tilbury_essex_web.pdf">English Heritage</a> in 2007 and the second is a wider historic survey of Bata’s global presence from the magazine <i><a href="https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/bata-ville-a-shoe-companys-quest-for-global-utopia/">Azure</a>.</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-UgER89qFTL_q9bs13HFpeiw6jVceQxElg19Uimghr8Uzh8AJg7unDNyzDZ6i-bp0811GQCJY7zLB_JcVfRoyH186JsOD-mSVixqDwizv9N2tZGVGh9c4LaPS-J0-zpT28KkOL5rgQf3SjbAZtS12thO4IqDXmhrfAbsy1cr7sDV7JzdSrmA9mc/s3907/e.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2604" data-original-width="3907" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-UgER89qFTL_q9bs13HFpeiw6jVceQxElg19Uimghr8Uzh8AJg7unDNyzDZ6i-bp0811GQCJY7zLB_JcVfRoyH186JsOD-mSVixqDwizv9N2tZGVGh9c4LaPS-J0-zpT28KkOL5rgQf3SjbAZtS12thO4IqDXmhrfAbsy1cr7sDV7JzdSrmA9mc/w640-h426/e.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6BZqF_ETmELbp1AJcNxHZYyMsReFw1MxkqPKnplFOnuZocS7cYo6Qwmq1eYVDA2fUnLLJ-HhjlM4EmfbGfDOVf5u_asXiXNyNvc-ptKOvX5SPM7-Rj0mlRHTqGBOWa11-Qgn8p6C64FT7TipGA0QhFZLjpQyk6MQhlJXqob6UPzsDOB5duhvj0k/s3947/f.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2631" data-original-width="3947" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6BZqF_ETmELbp1AJcNxHZYyMsReFw1MxkqPKnplFOnuZocS7cYo6Qwmq1eYVDA2fUnLLJ-HhjlM4EmfbGfDOVf5u_asXiXNyNvc-ptKOvX5SPM7-Rj0mlRHTqGBOWa11-Qgn8p6C64FT7TipGA0QhFZLjpQyk6MQhlJXqob6UPzsDOB5duhvj0k/w640-h426/f.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkL8snYG7kGm8e4sZC4QUA8GTwloGlyOF9ZTg7wd_zgFFuAndGDsKPacbyRSgMJAgHYiYNyS3o9spySZ3FDFBRyyiOyP3F98pqAixcUlr3tkFjv_Nr43XcXqGO2B1x95nn61j5TeeRnuPE1zy5bMOyPLRl_XQY1RlMd1fytGXmBO_FSM3nviQd08I/s3879/g.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2586" data-original-width="3879" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkL8snYG7kGm8e4sZC4QUA8GTwloGlyOF9ZTg7wd_zgFFuAndGDsKPacbyRSgMJAgHYiYNyS3o9spySZ3FDFBRyyiOyP3F98pqAixcUlr3tkFjv_Nr43XcXqGO2B1x95nn61j5TeeRnuPE1zy5bMOyPLRl_XQY1RlMd1fytGXmBO_FSM3nviQd08I/w640-h426/g.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqPeBQOa5f9vr4Y95uGIle2dgBtxXRzBx40ZJjSjWeS114HhRjZt4Eh9vywmEBE8wSu2WWGl0LZQW1WYOvFKw4vASinjoSDxG-SP2BhS_lTelEQasrYpQpr8UZse82XGxWPvUjzKnm6h4l87lFEHtEWrG6NRFxPveRYAmwazQ6IItJdxWGX4Yr01k/s3985/h.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2657" data-original-width="3985" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqPeBQOa5f9vr4Y95uGIle2dgBtxXRzBx40ZJjSjWeS114HhRjZt4Eh9vywmEBE8wSu2WWGl0LZQW1WYOvFKw4vASinjoSDxG-SP2BhS_lTelEQasrYpQpr8UZse82XGxWPvUjzKnm6h4l87lFEHtEWrG6NRFxPveRYAmwazQ6IItJdxWGX4Yr01k/w640-h426/h.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Phil Beardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075686435889440881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65501308820871089.post-14099297214189057062023-05-11T12:48:00.001+01:002023-05-14T10:37:53.364+01:00Bruce McCall (1935-2023)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG5LVX_QVpysF1uO6gvBXq_UuZZNZaSaMXfp2kfqO8L5CtYX2uoOlnob7TfqoNgSNxS9uYxFoVBaMYQU9f-IAzMda_dWt7dRaNJSFjYzjQdVAf5PhRbO-VWTdA94xpxPtSOKu-UK0FJ3OtdxN6PKs8IsuBwTpndBY62p1fPsncxQlOQ38hNZX9uRE/s4802/a%2013.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="4802" data-original-width="2362" height="1105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG5LVX_QVpysF1uO6gvBXq_UuZZNZaSaMXfp2kfqO8L5CtYX2uoOlnob7TfqoNgSNxS9uYxFoVBaMYQU9f-IAzMda_dWt7dRaNJSFjYzjQdVAf5PhRbO-VWTdA94xpxPtSOKu-UK0FJ3OtdxN6PKs8IsuBwTpndBY62p1fPsncxQlOQ38hNZX9uRE/w546-h1105/a%2013.jpg" width="546" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’ve been a fan of Bruce McCall’s illustrations since I first saw his parodies of <i>Streamline Moderne</i> in the pages of <i>National Lampoon </i>(see above). When he became a regular cover artist at the <i>New Yorker</i> I collected his covers as well as his books (<i>Zany Afternoons</i>, <i>All Meat Looks Like South America</i>). In the past I’ve read some snide criticism of his work - stylistically conservative, unadventurous and boring, but that ignores the ingenuity and asperity with which he undermined the conceits and social pretensions of self-conscious modernity. His experiments with the visually incongruous could rival those of Magritte, an artist whose work was greatly enhanced by conservative techniques of representation. By the time of his death he had drawn 83 <i><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2023-05-15">New Yorker</a></i> covers (almost 18 months worth) and though he kept returning to the same themes (human vanity, bears, ocean liners, aviation, motor vehicles, advertising) he always found something fresh to say in his familiar deadpan fashion. With decades of experience toiling in the advertising industry he knew whereof he spake. He died last Friday at the age of 87, by way of tribute this is a selection of my favourites of his streetscene covers for the <i>New Yorker</i> taken from my scrapbooks.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTuP8dKrLIszPyDgYaMWZTq5wm_d89vPdpFeNSsKuyjSUyezBrvZ4JuhpGz9cgasufscxjdBEug5r7AL0z0Sn7OE54Bf9EfeF6L9at4jJotZh6sbOotTDVaRSPxtD2wUzzQUBg-Cxbivth9noGBVbxa2xptyV5-q3zf4biD7s6r7all0Cqw1li9vI/s3221/ba.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3221" data-original-width="2332" height="675" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTuP8dKrLIszPyDgYaMWZTq5wm_d89vPdpFeNSsKuyjSUyezBrvZ4JuhpGz9cgasufscxjdBEug5r7AL0z0Sn7OE54Bf9EfeF6L9at4jJotZh6sbOotTDVaRSPxtD2wUzzQUBg-Cxbivth9noGBVbxa2xptyV5-q3zf4biD7s6r7all0Cqw1li9vI/w492-h675/ba.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieyYUs9BoLDL76PbeSY0kwEDCHSDadqornytY7HComqdTV7BuORSKDIvw4792PaIEm_2NO1pJBerzRlPNxXGaeigNOOpbmsFHXE57pqSc5DCh4azOQ5Gl7iC2zU3gk5KQ2W9S7wysiaDwImeDUsILK4yXdJCZ7GFBXMvQK65rUAdYIpm9GWeQsW0A/s3234/bb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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A predecessor, <i>The Animal’s Trip to Sea</i>, can be seen here. <i>The Airship in Animal Land</i> follows the same format and formula with 8 full-page chromolithographed plates and dates from around 1910. In a reckless endeavour, a family of bears take to the sky in a home made aircraft, spreading alarm and consternation before crash landing after an unlikely encounter with two elephants in a balloon. The charm of the book is almost entirely due to Thompson’s lively anthropomorphic drawings, packed full with detail to engage the observant child. Perhaps there’s a not so well hidden message to young readers about the perils of overreaching oneself, in tune with the advice of experts of the time. 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1052" data-original-width="1614" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFc6gY3KScr8TGa2kkR9B9V9FfH8HLFfoHjjyJ6Fe_wub3hFQm8gmJlixuCUeHs2hl2wAzdkFcZevrbAuipgufWcRlslUgDWfIvXenYs28Hmw6BGtXgzpdRQ8-WUNT5yTZCppXiJnADcn1kcuuc_3GJTCShQuLEU6xSE1PEYVQioZZQDVQKOY1v28/w640-h418/a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">England has a sizeable collection of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_figure">chalk figures</a> incised on the nation’s hillsides. Born of the enduring desire to leave a mark on the landscape, especially in areas where an underlying layer of chalk can easily be exposed. Horses greatly outnumber human figures and only one, the Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire is accepted by all authorities as being of ancient origin. There’s no agreement on the age of Uffington - Bronze Age, Romano-British and Early Modern are among existing theories. Best known of the human figures are the Wilmington Long Man in East Sussex and the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset. The Long Man, grasping his two staves was a popular subject for postcards while the Cerne Abbas Giant disqualified himself from this role by publicly exhibiting his abnormal state of arousal. The earliest recorded date for the Long Man is 1710 which makes him either a lot older or much younger than the Cerne Abbas Giant according to which of the many competing theories you subscribe to. Some speculate that the Long Man originally sported male genitalia and that at some time in the past they were removed in the name of public decency. If he had been spared this fate then his postcard career would never have begun. The majority of chalk figures date from the last 250 years. The Westbury White Horse is recorded as having been restored in 1778 to its present contours but there’s no reliable evidence of the existence of an earlier figure. King George III was a frequent visitor to Weymouth, boosting its profile as a holiday resort in the process and in 1808 the grateful citizens had his equestrian figure inscribed on a nearby hillside at the village of Osmington. Eric Ravilious was one of several artists from the interwar years who took a fresh look at the English landscape and the ways in which it was formed by human intervention. Chalk figures made repeat appearances in his work and included those at <a href="https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/train-landscape-270414/search/actor:ravilious-eric-19031942/page/2">Westbury</a>, Wilmington and Osmington to great effect.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7MbnWbbHR5xJRoxdfs_e75_3EA1xZG6uJlQlKSfLCssuJ50d3lfgoUrPmcHnIZgZGDm5xxPtGV88bsAQkgyEvaYkysfMsNRTrvSvT7hXAXwMTtFUGadLokKRoqMRGqlaetQIk1rIOeai03ouodoi1fkCWGeU0eHj7lhveHvWwLWv6xo11JIEwLpU/s1634/ab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1634" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7MbnWbbHR5xJRoxdfs_e75_3EA1xZG6uJlQlKSfLCssuJ50d3lfgoUrPmcHnIZgZGDm5xxPtGV88bsAQkgyEvaYkysfMsNRTrvSvT7hXAXwMTtFUGadLokKRoqMRGqlaetQIk1rIOeai03ouodoi1fkCWGeU0eHj7lhveHvWwLWv6xo11JIEwLpU/w640-h412/ab.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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