Sometimes you search and rummage for something appropriate as a seasonal greeting. This box was hiding in front of a tobacco tin and behind a Dinky Toy Jaguar. A Happy Easter to Everyone.
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About Me
- Peter Ashley
- I am a designer, writer and photographer who spends all his time looking at England, particularly buildings and the countryside. But I have a leaning towards the slightly odd and neglected, the unsung elements that make England such an interesting place to live in. I am the author and photographer of over 25 books, in particular Unmitigated England (Adelphi 2006), More from Unmitigated England (Adelphi 2007), Cross Country (Wiley 2011), The Cigarette Papers (Frances Lincoln 2012), Preposterous Erections (Frances Lincoln 2012) and English Allsorts (Adelphi 2015)
English Allsorts
"Open this book with reverence. It is a hymn to England". Clive Aslet
Preposterous Erections
"Enchanting...delightful". The Bookseller "Cheekily named" We Love This Book
The Cigarette Papers
"Unexpectedly pleasing and engrossing...beautifully illustrated". The Bookseller
Cross Country
"Until the happy advent of Peter Ashley's Cross Country it has, ironically, been foreigners who have been best at celebrating Englishness". Christina Hardyment / The Independent
More from Unmitigated England
"Give this book to someone you know- if not everyone you know." Simon Heffer, Country Life. "When it comes to spotting the small but telling details of Englishness, Peter Ashley has no equal." Michael Prodger, Sunday Telegraph
Unmitigated England
""....an absolutely stunning illustrated book..." A.N.Wilson / Daily Telegraph
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13 comments:
Happy Easter to you. Beautiful box.
Hope you had a wonderful Easter. There's nothing that reminds me more of spring in England than primroses at the foot of a beech tree in the morning sunshine.
Thank you both. Sue, I photographed a big bunch of primroses under a hedge yesterday, a remarkable survivor from the stampeding feet of the Hallaton Bottle Kickers.
Missed it again! Check out Fred Hawke's photographs of the event last century…my grandmother's brother.
Interesting stuff about him here -
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/jack-trades-master-multi-tasking-Fred/story-19699140-detail/story.html
Sorry, my previous comment obviously didn't refer to the lovely pen knib box. Hope your Easter wounds have healed.
This is very interesting Jon. Had I mentioned that my cousin's wife is a Hawke of the same family? Which means that you and I are related by marriage or something. Daddy!! Sorry, only jokin'. The Ford sign on page 168 of More from Unmitigated England, that I snapped in the early 70s, was Fred's. Some say the first Ford dealership in the country.
I do like the curly great Ps on the box.
Fred and his Kentish brother-in-law (my grandfather) were both early Ford dealers but in a very small way. My grandfather's garage at Horseshoe Green in Kent was a converted forge and a similar Ford sign was still hanging there until the late 60s. It was somewhere in the family memory that Uncle Fred was one of the first Ford garages in Britain. I know that when he sold up and his garage was cleared, my grandfather had enough new Model T Ford spares and parts to build several cars.
Thanks for that Jon. My cousins has many Hawke photographs on their kitchen wall.
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