An occasional series featuring buildings and places I like and painted by Peter Topping.
I am guessing we all have our favourite memories of the Tudor Barn and the Pleasaunce.
Mine run from wandering around the gardens on warm sunny days with a girl friend enjoying that heady sense of romance mixed with the memories of the sunlight playing on the moat and the orange coloured brick work of the Barn
And if there is one special memory it will be of a Blues and Folk night sometime in the summer of 1966.
I can’t remember who was on but there was something magical about sitting in the small open air theatre listening to the music with all that history as a backdrop.
For years afterwards I cherished the poster of the event which I bought for a shilling from the entertainments office of the Council, and as you do I pasted it on the wall of my bedroom.
It featured a guitar and a pair of Chelsea boots in black on a white background and always reminded me of the Pleasaunce.
For my sisters one of their special moments might well be those summer entertainments put on during the holidays and featuring all sorts of kid’s entertainers.
By chance one of those Junior Showtime’s was photographed by the local paper and the clipping with our Jill aged about nine staring back at the camera has survived.
And there hangs a perfect moment in time down at the Tudor Barn.
Painting; The Tudor Barn © 2017 Peter Topping from a photograph by Scott MacDonald circa 2013
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Picture; Well Hall courtesy of Scott McDonald and Junior Showtime, August 20 1967 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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| The Barn, 2017 |
Mine run from wandering around the gardens on warm sunny days with a girl friend enjoying that heady sense of romance mixed with the memories of the sunlight playing on the moat and the orange coloured brick work of the Barn
And if there is one special memory it will be of a Blues and Folk night sometime in the summer of 1966.
I can’t remember who was on but there was something magical about sitting in the small open air theatre listening to the music with all that history as a backdrop.
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| Junior Showtime in the Pleasaunce, 1967 |
It featured a guitar and a pair of Chelsea boots in black on a white background and always reminded me of the Pleasaunce.
For my sisters one of their special moments might well be those summer entertainments put on during the holidays and featuring all sorts of kid’s entertainers.
By chance one of those Junior Showtime’s was photographed by the local paper and the clipping with our Jill aged about nine staring back at the camera has survived.
And there hangs a perfect moment in time down at the Tudor Barn.
Painting; The Tudor Barn © 2017 Peter Topping from a photograph by Scott MacDonald circa 2013
Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
Facebook: Paintings from Pictures; https://www.facebook.com/paintingsfrompictures
Picture; Well Hall courtesy of Scott McDonald and Junior Showtime, August 20 1967 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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