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37-63 High Street, Eccleshall…where friends meet
Gallery at 12 in Eccleshall has just re-opened with some style! Members of Staffordshire Artists Cooperative have been hard at work giving the interior a whole new look with a fresh colour scheme and creating new work. Seeing the gallery revitalised was a timely reminder to post the rest of my Eccleshall street drawings on this archive. Continue reading
Creation, Destruction, Good, Evil, Light and Dark: 34-84 Micklegate Part 2
Micklegate, York, once home to a Roman Temple to gods of creation and destruction. Continue reading
34-84 Micklegate, York (part 1 of 2)
Picking up from where I left off with my first drawing of Micklegate, this one records the buildings from 34 to 84 as the street winds its way further towards York. Micklegate is a living archaeological site – there is so much history layered into the fabric of the street since Roman times. Continue reading
Route 66 to High Street Lanark
With most of these buildings on Wellgate constructed in the early to mid-19th century, they will have already witnessed the pandemic of 1918 -19, the epidemic which took around 50 million lives worldwide including my Grandfather’s, just a few months … Continue reading
Wellgate Lanark – Healing Hands to La Vigna
Wellgate, Lanark is one of the historic four gates or ports into the town. These are West Port, East Port, Wellgate and Castlegate. This drawing of Wellgate starts with no 60 and 58 and ends where it meets the High … Continue reading
Dalserf – Kirk Road
Drive along the Clyde Valley tourist route towards Lanark (A72) and you will pass a small sign to Dalserf Church. Slow down and you will see a further sign “Dalserf 1655” and you may catch a glimpse of the street … Continue reading
Flowers by Lesley to Flowers of Scotland
There’s something uplifting to see flowers out on the high street, especially at this time of year. To continue where I left off on the last blog post, this is Flowers by Lesley Strachan, on Lanark High Street, always a … Continue reading
Bloomgate to High Street, Lanark
Where Bloomgate meets Wide Close, the street narrows into a bottle neck where traffic slows to pass along this ancient route alongside St Nicholas Church. I have covered the rest of Bloomgate in earlier drawings and blog posts (here and … Continue reading
