Old paintings of London Docks

[Stilllearning]

Russia Dock, in 1955

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Edited July 24, 2023 by Stilllearning

[Heartland]

1955 is perhaps modernist

But a translation is needed for the Dock location.

 

[Stilllearning]

1 hour ago, Heartland said:

1955 is perhaps modernist

But a translation is needed for the Dock location.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_Dock_Woodland

[David Mack]

3 hours ago, Heartland said:

1955 is perhaps modernist

But a translation is needed for the Dock location.

 

In the middle of the Surrey Docks, and formed (along with Stave Dock) by enlargement of the original route of the Grand Surrey Canal, which later led off from the inlet off Greenland Dock at the bottom of this map.

[Stilllearning]

And there's this, Lavender Pond, Surrey Docks.

 

[Tam & Di]

Are they paintings you have?

[Stilllearning]

8 minutes ago, Tam & Di said:

Are they paintings you have?

Yes, bought at auction over ten years ago.

ETA

We have some others too.

This is Ipswich docks 1992

 

Trent lock

 

This is the last, a power station off the A1M in South Yorkshire 

who's name escapes me

 

Edited July 30, 2023 by Stilllearning

[Tam & Di]

We have a fair number too, but none of scenes within the docks. This is the closest geographically, though we have others more stylistically similar to yours:

 

[Stilllearning]

15 minutes ago, Tam & Di said:

We have a fair number too, but none of scenes within the docks. This is the closest geographically, though we have others more stylistically similar to yours:

 

I like that, a gently moody view.

[Tam & Di]

We got this limited edition print in the 80s when Julian Trevelyan's workshops were being cleared out. He was one of the painters commissioned to paint scenes at the beginning of WW2 in order to preserve the memories. We have one by Grace Golden, another of this group, of the Regents Canal

 

[Stilllearning]

We got all ours at auction.  The trent lock one from Bamfords in Derby, the others in east anglia I think.

The power station is Ferrybridge, the name has just come back to me. The same painter did the Ipswich one, there's an interesting story about his life.

[Tam & Di]

Most of ours were too. And one possibly of interest to the historically minded - it is the Gravesend end of the Thames and Medway canal. Bernard Sickert is the brother of the famous Walter, and his pictures don't fetch much  😀 (not that we could have afforded it if it was by Walter)

 

Edited July 30, 2023 by Tam & Di