Bank Holiday show_depth barely a decade later the

barely a decade later the shipping containers and coastal deep-water ports had finished off the Thames’ trade and with it the viability of the Docks and Wharves along that bank

In 1971 she was bought for the Philadelphia Maritime Museum and serves as a sail-training and good-will ship

The son of an antique dealer

looking back to the 1880s rather than the 1920s when it was probably painted

Bank Holiday show_depth barely a decade later theThis is pure 1950s nostalgia, an image of the British public at play as if frozen in a Path News reel. Frustratingly there is no signature nor handy provenance to give a clue to authorship. The day trippers in small craft jostling in amongst the barges at a country lock are reminiscent of many 20th century painters. Stylistically it is pure Camberwell School of the period and if I were a betting man I would back three young students of the