{"id":3959,"date":"2017-02-14T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2017-12-18T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:36:34","slug":"camden-street-newsagents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/camden-street-newsagents\/","title":{"rendered":"Camden Street Newsagent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsagents and Corner Shop<\/h3>\n

Situated on the corner of \u00a0Bradshaw Street and \u00a0Camden Street, Nelson. (owned by J & W.M Hopkinson)<\/p>\n

Once numerous in the town these newsagents are very rare, especially when a delivery service is provided as in this shop.\u00a0\u00a0 The shop is open 364 days of the year providing a \u00a0valuable 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 \u00a0by the proprietors.<\/p>\n

\"Newsagents
Oil Painting of Camden Street Newsagents Shop 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Newsagents
Preparatory OIl Drawing of Camden Street Newsagents 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The building looks simple but has some curious unusual conflicting angles which require\u00a0careful study if a reasonable image is to be produced.<\/p>\n

\"Newsagents
Preliminary Pencil Drawing of Camden Street Newsagents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In fact the simple rules of elementary\u00a0perspective appear to be broken, here and there.<\/p>\n

Similar Work<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"winterbottoms
Memories of Winterbottoms Newsagents – Corner Fir Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Lancashire
Heskeths’ Newsagents – from memory & imagination<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Christmas<\/p>\n

And finally a water colour depiction of Hesketh’s after it had changed hands.<\/p>\n

\"Former
Former “Hesketh’s” Newsagents Water Colour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsagents and Corner Shop Situated on the corner of \u00a0Bradshaw Street and \u00a0Camden 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.\u00a0\u00a0 The shop is open 364 days of the year providing a \u00a0valuable public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[90,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4288,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/4288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}