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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]The Gazette 7th may 1937 "Langley Mill intends to celebrate the Coronation with its usual thoroughness and not the least proof of this is the production of a handsome souvenier programme, which is now on sale at the price of threepence. The booklet is admirably produced, and, before turning to its contents, I must congratulate the printers upon the fine craftmanship which has gone towards the composition and which is testimony that in the printing trade as in several other industries Langley Mill is worthily upholding its reputation for first class workmanship. One of the most noteworthy features is a drawing by Mr George Bissill, the well known Langley Mill artist. Mr Bissill asks that after use the Coronation Committee will present the original drawing to Coun T Horsley, the headmaster of the Boys' School, for the school. Mr Bissill who was born in 1896 was a former scholar there. He left at thirteen and went to work at local collieries. From 1915-1918 he served in France, where he was gassed in 1918. After leaving the army he studied at the Nottingham School of Art, going to settle in London in 1921. There he speedily made a name for himself, practising most forms of modern methods in art expression. Since 1924 he has been holding regular one man exhibitions in the Bond Street galleries and has also exhibited at the London group New English and international exhibitions. He occasionally does commercial work designing posters for Shell and the G.P.O. He has also designed costumes for the theatre and furniture." Please note -throughout this article the name is spellt "Bissill"-it's not my typo.... this time!!![/quote]
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This message was updated on 5/27/2006 6:47:20 PM by suzard

Langley Mill Artist
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The Gazette 7th may 1937
"Langley Mill intends to celebrate the Coronation with its usual thoroughness and not the least proof of this is the production of a handsome souvenier programme, which is now on sale at the price of threepence. The booklet is admirably produced, and, before turning to its contents, I must congratulate the printers upon the fine craftmanship which has gone towards the composition and which is testimony that in the printing trade as in several other industries Langley Mill is worthily upholding its reputation for first class workmanship.
One of the most noteworthy features is a drawing by Mr George Bissill, the well known Langley Mill artist. Mr Bissill asks that after use the Coronation Committee will present the original drawing to Coun T Horsley, the headmaster of the Boys' School, for the school. Mr Bissill who was born in 1896 was a former scholar there. He left at thirteen and went to work at local collieries. From 1915-1918 he served in France, where he was gassed in 1918. After leaving the army he studied at the Nottingham School of Art, going to settle in London in 1921. There he speedily made a name for himself, practising most forms of modern methods in art expression. Since 1924 he has been holding regular one man exhibitions in the Bond Street galleries and has also exhibited at the London group New English and international exhibitions. He occasionally does commercial work designing posters for Shell and the G.P.O. He has also designed costumes for the theatre and furniture."

Please note -throughout this article the name is spellt "Bissill"-it's not my typo.... this time!!!

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