A beautiful painting of Parwich was displayed this evening on the Antiques Roadshow!
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The programme was filmed at Chatsworth and there were many items brought along that had connections with the estate. This particular picture was painted in 1950 by Bert Broomhead, who was a gamekeeper at Chatsworth. The Duke and Duchess must have been impressed as they provided Bert with his own studio.
It is fascinating to see how this aspect of the village looked 60 years ago. There were significantly fewer houses at this time.
If you missed the programme, you can watch it for a limited period on the BBC iPlayer. Click here and see the painting 29 minutes and 17 seconds into the programme.
Added on Monday (by Peter T)
Mike does this re-orientation of the painting help locate it? It must be south and slightly east of the Church on the slopes of Parwich Hill. How about on Creamery Lane level with Knob Hall, though several buildings may have been ommitted and/or redesigned?
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Try as I might, I can’t work out what view this painting relates to, and which buildings are featured. Thoughts, anyone?
My guess would be that the buildings on the top right are the back of the terraced cottages on Creamery lane (now much altered) and thus the lane is the branch of Creamery lane that heads off towards Monsdale lane.
I think you are quite correct Colin.
The picture was painted looking down the road from the hillside at the back of Orchard Farm.
bottom left hand corner of the picture could it be part of the house where Val and John Kirkham live now
I have only just seen this discussion. John had also sent the picture to the blog on Sunday night, plus an explanation so we hadn’t realised there was any confusion.
Val is right. The picture is painted from just behind Orchard Farm; the little building in the foreground on the left our old privy. You could see our blog for a little more info http://tomsbarn.co.uk/tomsbarnblog/
Colin, I think you may be right about the Creamery Lane cottages, or John thinks it might be where Val and Nick live now? I had wondered about Knob Hall but it’s too low down…
Jan & Rob have emailed some more information on this painting
“– we’ve been doing some more digging about the painting. It seems there is no doubt that it was copied directly from one of the pictures in the book titled ‘English Village & Hamlets’ by Humphrey Parkington Pub 1934 – which is still available through ABE books. (just checked). If you look at the photograph from the book you can see that it has been copied right down to the shadows of the wall on the lane. The photograph was itself taken from a post card.”
This explains why there are fewer houses by the Church than you would expect for the 1950s, as Bert Broomhead painted it from an older photograph, though where is Farm View?
Update on the above: Rob and Jan wanted me to say that their information came from Denis L and that the original photograph was taken by Will Taylor – circa early 1930s.