We lived in the prefabs from 1947/8 until they were torn down in 1964, I went to Bells lane infant junior school, on the wall in the headmasters office (Mr Pascoe) hung an aerial photo of the estate showing the two types of building ... There were two blocks of shops, Winterbourne Crescent,( CoOp store and Butchers, also chip shop etc) and Wilsford Road, PO, hardware and news agents. Wonderful memories of field,s woods, cows, the chinn brook, coronation party at Bells ...
('The Bright Young Things' at Wilsford: Cecil Beaton, Hon. Stephen Tennant, Rex Whistler and others, 1927. Photo by Cecil Beaton, available HERE, for ?1400.) I suppose the lesson amidst all the mayhem is to slow down, ..... My pieces consist of portraits of friends, vacations I've taken, places I've lived and important talismans in my life. I seek to illustrate my life through thread in the same way that the Bayeux Tapestry and 17th century English stumpwork provided a ...
Go to Kensington, and you'll see estate agents' notices advertising bijou mews flats for ?1.2 million. Then go to South Wales, where houses are advertised, with the prices on, on bits of hardboard in the front garden. ?House, ?5999. ...
