I've been planning to do this picture for ages! In the foreground are Ruth Pierce, whose alarming end is commemorated on the Market Cross; and a moonraker in front of the Crammer where the story of moonrakers is supposed to originate.
Then there's the canal wharf, and the locks of Caen Hill to the side.
Next there's the Wadsworths brewery dray, and the fountain with its attendant pigeons; and the Georgian buildings of the Market Square, and the Corn Exchange surmounted by Ceres, goddess of crops.
And then the parish church of St John the Baptist, and the spectacular Wadworths brewery, representing churches both spritual and temporal, maybe.
And in the background, Roundway Hill and the Devizes White Horse. And a red kite, and an RAF A400 Atlas, of a sort often to be seen whizzing around here.
You can get a copy of the picture in my Etsy shop. And I may well get round to having tea towels printed too
A masterpiece! You get so much into these
ReplyDeleteThank you! Of course, I missed out several people's favourite pub. I may have to do another one, of Devizes Pubs....
DeleteNow that is a good idea..so many interesting names and histories, so many disappearing
DeleteWhen we were very young we counted 37 pubs in Devizes and one cinema, as the total of venues open after 5pm...surprised not more of us are raging alcoholics!
Deletethat's a fair number for a town that size! There's huge swathes of Bristol with nary a pub, because the land was owned by the Wills family who were Quakers...
DeleteHi Dru...what size and price will the prints be? XxJaney
ReplyDeleteThey come in A3, A4 and postcard size, Janey! £10, £5 and £1 respectively.
DeleteThanks Dru, I found them last night. I had sent the pic to my sis, who loed it and plans to order them for her old school friends - we all grew up in Devizes - for their seventieth(!) birthday next year. I'll order one for her...xx
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