I got plenty of new leads and information on Hill Farm, Wildwood, Little St Cross, St Christophers Church and the Dolmetsches, so watch this space!
A pensive pre-talk me...some people did turn up, honest! |
A blog recording the Peasant Arts movement in Haslemere, Surrey, UK around the early 1900s, and it's founders Joseph King, Maude Egerton King, Godfrey Blount, Ethel Blount and Greville MacDonald. Arts and crafts, religion, literature, architecture, suffragettes, family trees, local locations and strong beliefs, this story has it all. Over a century later, their promotion of the pleasures of homemade craft is still relevant today.
A pensive pre-talk me...some people did turn up, honest! |
I`m so sorry we missed your talk but pleased that it went well. It will be good to hear more about the Peasant Places of Haslemere. Especially Little St Cross......
ReplyDeleteThanks! There were at least 100 people there, so I had company. It was great to spread the word about the Peasant Arts movement on their old 'home territory'.
ReplyDeleteI was reminded of Godfrey Blount giving his magic lantern talks in Haslemere around 100 years ago, I wonder what he would have thought of my talk...I didn't hand paint a single slide!