Ernie Childs and Friends Online Exhibition

Ernie Childs and Friends

Online Exhibition

If you've arrived here looking for pictures from the October 2024 Ernie's Memorial Art Group Exhibition,

here is the link to that item on the Art Group Page. Thanks.

Link to Oct 2024 Art Group Exhibition Pics

Welcome to our Online Exhibition!

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

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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