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.
Welcome 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.
Presenting The Artists:
Ernie Childs
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.
Price, as a pair £3,500
The Grit - The Story of Lowestoft's Beach Village
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
Yvonne Ryder
Sandy Jones
Brian Upson
Roger Foxhall
