Latton Street
Fooling around painting from couple of black and white photos I took in 1958 whan I was 10, one of the photos had my old mate, Larry Lamb, in it, his dad owned the chippy in the Hatch. I suppose I was trying to get something like a Doug Eaton effect, failed miserably. This is Latton Street, one of the Harlow's original roads. it runs several miles from Latton Common, down to the River Stort. The track on the right is where I used to walk to school, the bushes on the right have been bulldozed and there is a little sheltered accomadation estate there. The houses on the left are part of a new town housing estate, Blackbush Spring, beyond them is the football field, 2 pitches and a cricket pitch, beyond that the Stow shopping Centre, in 1958, it was the main one. Over the hedgerow on the left is a little shopping Hatch, 5 shops, Burgoyne Hatch, I remember that in the 50s the hedge was filled with thick vines of old man's beard, wild clematis. I used to live just beyond the green in front of the hatch, my mum still does, probably about this time they were putting in the footings for the Purple Emperor pub, just next to the Hatch. Rowney soft pastels on Sennelier pastel card, antique white, image size 15"x11"
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