Now it always surprises me just how quickly what we take for granted slips into the past.
So here we are with one of the earlier tams coming in to St Peter’s Square.
I don’t have a date for when Peter painted it and that must always be a lesson to us all.
But there will be someone who will be able to hazard a guess, along with the date of the trams construction, its commissioning and its final last run.
And I bet too they will be able to offer up when it was broken up and where.
Setting that aside there is much else that makes this painting a unique bit of history.
Since it was painted the Ref has been renovated, that ugly building opposite demolished and a new one has risen in its place, the Cenotaph has moved and soon so will the metro stop.
All of which is another lesson in what we choose or not choose to record which I suppose just means Peter will be out again on the city streets looking for subjects to paint.
I don’t have a date for when Peter painted it and that must always be a lesson to us all.
But there will be someone who will be able to hazard a guess, along with the date of the trams construction, its commissioning and its final last run.
And I bet too they will be able to offer up when it was broken up and where.
Setting that aside there is much else that makes this painting a unique bit of history.
Since it was painted the Ref has been renovated, that ugly building opposite demolished and a new one has risen in its place, the Cenotaph has moved and soon so will the metro stop.
All of which is another lesson in what we choose or not choose to record which I suppose just means Peter will be out again on the city streets looking for subjects to paint.
Painting; Manchester Tram, © Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures
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The earlier trams were well before that and the last of those finished in 1948( i think !)
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