I came across this pen and ink drawing from 1976, and as it seemed to garner interest when family members posted it on social media, I thought I’d share it on the website.
Tag: William Lonsdale drawing
Burnley Road School
Years ago I walked from my home in Nelson over the moors road to Heptonstall and Mytholmroyd, and whilst I was drawing Burnley Road School (seen from the fields), a man approached and told me that the former Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes had once been a pupil.
Season’s Greetings 2018
Wishing Everyone a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Victory V Factory Nelson
I noticed an article in the Lancashire Evening Post last week – it caught my eye as it was about the Victory Factory on Chapel Street in Nelson, which was an imposing building for many years in the town until its demolition in 1988. It is believed that jelly babies were invented in Nelson. You can read about it in the article below.
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Entrance to the Public Garden at Arles
If you recognise the header of this post you would be right in thinking it’s the title of a painting by Vincent Van Gogh – painted in 1888. I’ve added a link to it below so you can remind yourself of it or view it for the first time.
Mill Engine Drawings
Here are drawings of two mill engines, with details of their history. When these two mills were operational, I drew them both in situ from two different viewpoints as shown.
HARDING CONSORT
Looking through my 2011 sketch book I came across these drawings of a very interesting old Invalid Carriage. The vehicle is a 148cc (one hundred and forty eight!!) HARDING CONSORT built between 1956-1966. It had a Villiers Engine.
Iron Structures
Here are a few drawings that I’m adding today that include metal structures – the industrial fabrications of rail, railings and a fire-escape on The Marlborough Hostel for the homeless, (for needy people who just wanted one night’s accommodation). The angular shapes, straight lines and the perspectives of the structures are always an interest for me to represent on the page – an exercise in translation which I can use later as features in more fully developed work.
The Disapproving Horse
Pastel sketch – circa mid seventies.
To make this unfinished sketch I was seated on a folding stool in a field hoping to make sketches of two or three grazing horses when behind me I felt a tugging at the cord of my anorak hood.
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