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
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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