Now the project is simple, take a modern image of a building we all love and turn it into the style of poster which was popular in the middle decades of the last century.*
Although in this case it is the ferry, which for many of us will always be special.
As kids it was the start of the adventure that took you across the river to that “other place” and for countless grownups the way you got to work.
The last time I used it was when we were heading back north from Deal and having lost the M25 I managed to navigate a route that took us in to Eltham past our old house at Well Hall, and always one to seize an opportunity I suggested we make the river crossing at Woolwich.
And that pretty much restored my creditability. Tina who is Italian just loved the experience.
And yes I know we had had to queue and the journey takes just a few minutes but she found it magic as did I.
All of which just leaves me to adapt that Samuel Johnson comment about London, “the best prospect any of us can see is the ferry crossing at Woolwich that takes us home.”*
Location: on the Thames at Woolwich
Painting; Coming home to Woolwich, © 2017 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures, from a photograph by Andrew Simpson, 2012
Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
*Posters from the Past, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Posters%20from%20the%20Past
**“The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!”
Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
As kids it was the start of the adventure that took you across the river to that “other place” and for countless grownups the way you got to work.
The last time I used it was when we were heading back north from Deal and having lost the M25 I managed to navigate a route that took us in to Eltham past our old house at Well Hall, and always one to seize an opportunity I suggested we make the river crossing at Woolwich.
And that pretty much restored my creditability. Tina who is Italian just loved the experience.
And yes I know we had had to queue and the journey takes just a few minutes but she found it magic as did I.
All of which just leaves me to adapt that Samuel Johnson comment about London, “the best prospect any of us can see is the ferry crossing at Woolwich that takes us home.”*
Location: on the Thames at Woolwich
Painting; Coming home to Woolwich, © 2017 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures, from a photograph by Andrew Simpson, 2012
Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
*Posters from the Past, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Posters%20from%20the%20Past
**“The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!”
Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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