Friday 2 September 2016

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 63 ............ The Painting

The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.*

Now I wonder what Joe and Mary Ann would have made of the day that local artist Peter Topping decided that their house was worthy of being a painting.

They after all had moved in when the house was brand new in 1915 and Mary Ann died in 1974, and apart from a few years this was where they had lived all their married life.

And in the same way it has been home to our children who in a century have been the only children to live here.

I suspect all of us would be pleased and no doubt would mutter why not?

Its history may be a tad shorter than that of Blenheim Palace but in its hundred years it has been home to four families and has touched countless people who have known it as a place to stay, to visit or just call in.

During its first 59 years it was a sanctuary for whatever stray cats the Scott’s befriended and in our own time was home to a big black Labrador, three street cats, two rabbits, two gerbils and a hamster, and more recently a place where our Josh and Polly’s pet rabbit has come to stay on its holidays.

In the back garden John and assorted friends including Jack Harker built a boat which went out through a hole in the wall and on a more serious note the place will have seen its fair share of black out curtains.

So for all that history and more I am pleased Peter has painted it.

Location; Chorlton

Painting; The House, Painting © 2016 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures

Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk

*The story of a house,
http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/The%20story%20of%20a%20house

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