An inscribed bedside clock that makes me think every time I pass it. There are lots of stories, this is one of them… Composite images, John Stezaker; painting, Henry Carr, IWM; music, Andy Connell and Corinne Drewery. Continue reading Christmas 1936
Images from London’s Geffrye Museum. Above: a painting from 1942 captures part of the audience at one of many wartime music recitals held in The National Gallery. Above, a 1930s sitting room – one of the museum’s many displays, and below, factory workers in wartime. Continue reading Sitting rooms
From 1941, James Hilton’s novel Random Harvest… a really excellent cover with just the credit ‘Reeves’ in the corner. It’s the book of the film which I mentioned here. It was a best-seller in the forties (second on the New York Times list of bestsellers for the year). James Hilton is another of those authors … Continue reading Faint lights at sunset… or on the horizon
This is almost a film from the forties in book form – I’m thinking of A Canterbury Tale in the sense that it echoes the opening titles. You can hear the peal of bells and the fonts are as crisp as if lit by the silver screen, ancient art and (for the time) modern technology … Continue reading October 1941: Cries of London
WHISTLES IN THE WIND 