Ernie Childs and Friends Online Exhibition

Ernie Childs and Friends

Online Exhibition

It goes without saying that this year will be different for us all, for a few reasons, not least of which is that dear Ernie will only be with us in spirit, and that Covid 19 has changed many things, some permanently. Sadly, families have lost loved ones and suffered many other hardships. But let us hope that some changes will turn out to be for the better.


Now, let me welcome you to our Online Exhibition!



If you are interested in making a purchase it will be on a "buyer collects" basis.

Please ring or email Karen (contact details at the foot of every page) for information.

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Presenting The Artists: 

Ernie     


(please see even more from Ernie further down the page)

    •  Ernie painted "The Fish Auctions" and "The Mardle" to hang as a pair,

    and this is how they look that way.

    Taken during Ernie's Exhibition at

    the Minster Church of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth.

    What follows next is high quality scans of the cover for a book by Jack Rose and Dean Parkin entitled "The Grit".  (ISBN 1 872992 10 2)


    The book documents the history and the life and times of The Beach Village, Lowestoft.


    After many years of decline, the Beach Village was demolished in the late 1960s bringing an end to the most easterly community in Britain.


    The cover pictures were taken from Ernie's paintings.


    The front cover "The Beach Shods" (dialect, not typo) depicts the two Beach Company Sheds and the back cover "Collecting the Road Apples" depicts 'Happy' Welham and Jakie Smith, the Beach Village chimney sweeps with their donkey and cart  outside the alms houses in Whapload Road, Lowestoft.


    The donkey has kindly provided some 'road apples' being gathered up by an eagle-eyed housewife for use as fertiliser.

    

    The Book Cover

    Ernie's Paintings photographed for The Book Cover

    Brenda Tubby

    Katie Dorsett

    Yvonne Ryder

    • Sandy Jones

    Brian Upson

    Roger Foxhall

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