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Alan Beresford

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Here is my effort today, it is a location on landscape painter, and the current home of the sewing Bee.

Sylvia Evans

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Clever Alan...you have been buzzy .sorry..that’s naff , I do like your drawing though . 

Tessa Gwynne

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That’s very good Alan, quite a complex building. Dixie, what’s the Guinea Pig club?
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Hi Tessa the Guinea Pig club were people who Mackindo a famous surgeon in WW11 operated on . He developed plastic surgery mostly on aircrew who were badly burned . He found that if someone had been in seawater following burning as happened to some aircrew they  recovered better . It works as I have just had a bad scold treated  the same way. They became know as Guinean pig as he was testing out on them . Brad who I worked with had his chin blown off while flying in Sunderland over Biscay and it took six hrs to fly back he was  the tail gunner . He did actually have a plastic type skin over his chin . Sometimes they were known as MacKindos  army . Very brave people in my opinion some were terribly scared for life . 

Sylvia Evans

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Wasn't there a post war film of them made Dixie ?.  They were somewhere in Surrey ,Godstone or Guildford.   

Tessa Gwynne

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Actually now you say it that does ring a bell Dixie. There was a film about them wasn’t there? As you say, very brave men.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I think there was a film made but cannot remember it’s name I have the feeling that the hospital was at East Grinstead but in not sure . 

Sylvia Evans

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Yes it was East Grinstead. 
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Alan Beresford

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The film was made in 2017, and was called the Guinea Pig Club, it stared Richard E Grant
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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That must be a new one Alan I haven’t seen it, I have seen to one made  in the 1950s I think it had some of the actual patients taking part. Thanks for the info on the modern film . 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Another basic layout sketch for a painting .

Bari Marsh

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Like the engine Paul, I did a pen & ink of a roller a while back..
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