Newsagents and Corner Shop

Situated on the corner of  Bradshaw Street and  Camden Street, Nelson. (owned by J & W.M Hopkinson)

Once numerous in the town these newsagents are very rare, especially when a delivery service is provided as in this shop.   The shop is open 364 days of the year providing a  valuable public service every day except Christmas Day, and selling basic commodities. At school leaving time it is thronged with youngsters who are dealt with in a very patient manner  by the proprietors.

The building looks simple but has some curious unusual conflicting angles which require careful study if a reasonable image is to be produced.

In fact the simple rules of elementary perspective appear to be broken, here and there.

Similar Work

The Newsagents Shop is a theme I have visited before – here is an earlier work in oil, created from memory, depicting the newsagents, Winterbottoms, at the time of the Suez Crisis in 1956. This shop was also situated in Nelson, Lancashire, at the corner of Fir Street and Bracewell Street.

Here is another painting which features Hesketh’s Newsagents on Larch Street, Nelson. This is partly from memory and partly imagination – the Turog Bakery is reminiscent of one my parents ran on Southfield Street in the 1940s & 1950s.

And finally a water colour depiction of Hesketh’s after it had changed hands.