Rocket Corner, Market Place, Durham City.

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Know it well, good rendering

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Mon 15 Jan 08:36:45

All these angles would frighten me Michael! Excellent.

Posted by Marjorie Firth on Mon 15 Jan 09:11:31

Love the story Michael and your painting is very good, great perspective!

Posted by Carole Swingler on Mon 15 Jan 09:14:32

Thanks Derek, Marjorie and Carole.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Mon 15 Jan 09:16:23

Great drawing Michael, love the colours and cobblestone 😃

Posted by Linda Drury on Mon 15 Jan 09:46:47

Good spacial sense in this piece Michael.

Posted by John Graham Inkson on Mon 15 Jan 10:12:49

Thanks Linda and John.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Mon 15 Jan 11:18:01

Nice one, Michel, well observed.

Posted by Willie Drea on Mon 15 Jan 12:58:25

Thanks Willie.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Mon 15 Jan 14:06:13

Nice drawing and well painted. Rocket Corner did they sell salad or fireworks or maybe the inspiration for an Elton John song from your story!

Posted by Malcolm Coils on Mon 15 Jan 14:59:28

Thanks Malcolm. I remember in the 50s and 60s there was a shop on the corner called Rocket. They sold gents shirts and other clothes.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Mon 15 Jan 15:06:19

Super perspectives Michael, they would tie me up in knots!

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Mon 15 Jan 18:22:41

A difficult perspective soundly resolved.

Posted by andre mulard on Tue 16 Jan 12:19:26

Thanks Fiona and Andre.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Tue 16 Jan 13:00:20

Lovely pen and wash Michael.

Posted by David Johns on Tue 16 Jan 13:50:25

Brilliant! And so is the story.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Tue 16 Jan 19:48:40

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15/01/2018

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Pen and wash. My dad told me that he recalled holding his mam's hand as they walked past Rocket Corner one evening when he was about eight. A drunken man came up to her and said something whereupon she bend down, swiftly took off her shoe and struck him a heavy blow to the head with it. The McManus' didn't get where they are today by being intimidated.

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Michael Mcmanus

I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…

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