A mixed bag of local artists was behind the recent Heritage Centre quiz which featured 40 depictions of Darwen, the oldest being James Hargreaves Morton who was killed in the closing days of the Great War.. Harold Heys has asked us to point out that he has several “entries” – simply because he had photos of his output “in the can” and they were easy to gather in for him to use in his quiz.
Some of the other 30 or so which were used took some hard digging out, but were well worth all the effort, he says.
Billy Almond
Albert Hurst
JH Morton
Ron Duxbury
Harvey Thornton
Harold Heys
Ian Morris
Reg Ball
Dave Gudgeon
Gill Ousby
Jim Riley
Hubert Bentley
Adie Turner
Bill Brookes
Frank Ellison
John Higson
Simon Painter
The photographs of the paintings will have their titles and the artist added at a later date, but all of the artists are listed above.
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