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  • Saturday 28th March 2020
    A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
    Here is the first item out of my portfolio: a small (11" x 7") uncoloured wood-engraving with letterpress entitled, THE NAVAL GALLERY, OR PAINTED...
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  • Friday 27th March 2020
    WARWICK LEADLAY GALLERY IN EXILE
    It is most disconcerting to find yourself cast adrift from your moorings and ending up in stranded isolation on an island all to yourself. But, in...
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  • Thursday 26th March 2020
    Close Up and Personal
    Bugs and contagions are without doubt on all our minds presently, so I thought it perhaps appropriate to describe the circumstances by which I was...
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  • Wednesday 25th March 2020
    WATCH THIS SPACE
    Warwick Leadlay Gallery is presently closed for an unforeseeable future. HOWEVER ... THO' THE BLINDS BE DOWN, IT WON'T SHUT US UP !! Here's the plan...
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  • Sunday 30th November 2014
    CHRISTMAS TIME IN GREENWICH
    It's that time of year again (and yes, policemen do get younger, don't they!) Here is our christmas card - based on one of the thematic designs...
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  • Saturday 29th November 2014
    JOURNAL OF THE GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    The 2013 edition of the Journal of the Greenwich Historical Society is just published, containing three very learned (and/but) eminently readable...
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  • Thursday 23rd October 2014
    Threshing Chestnuts
    As I've cycled to and fro' through Greenwich Park in recent weeks I've noticed the gatherers of chestnuts gathered with their backs bent, peering...
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  • Tuesday 26th November 2013
    'GREENWICH REVEALED'
    Greenwich Revealed’ An investigation into some early 18th century drawings of Greenwich, by Neil Rhind and Julian Watson. Who would have ever have...
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  • Monday 7th October 2013
    WARWICK LEADLAY AFTER HOURS
    WARWICK LEADLAY AFTER HOURS Do you have a pash for Polly Peachum? Do you know your Rocque from your Cruchley? Are you aware of the intrigues of the...
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  • Wednesday 28th August 2013
    Regency Greenwich
    The familiarity of Joseph Kay’s splendidly stuccoed town centre of Greenwich (“as good as Nash and better built” according to the architectural...
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  • Thursday 15th August 2013
    Happy Birthday, Boney!
    The fifteenth of August (quinziemme aout) is in France generally given over to the celebration of the Feast of the Assumption. The country closes...
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  • Tuesday 9th July 2013
    Clare Leighton
    Just added to these pages, a few examples of the black and white lithographs of the original wood-engraving by Clare Leighton that were published as...
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  • Friday 7th June 2013
    Apocalypse Now and Then
    The consequences of global warming and climate change mean that we are now all victim to the vagaries of the weather, as tsunamis, tornadoes and...
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  • Tuesday 12th March 2013
    Aftermath
    This from our local correspondent, Peter Kent. Times certainly do change as the grim reaper takes his toll. Warwick Leadlay, the distinguished silver...
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  • Monday 11th March 2013
    Closed Today
    We are closed today for the Funeral of the late Warwick Leadlay.
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  • Saturday 16th February 2013
    Warwick Leadlay (1929-2013) RIP
    After a long and valiant fight against cancer, Warwick died peacefully at about noon today surrounded by his family. He opened the Gallery in 1974...
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  • Wednesday 7th November 2012
    Colouring In
    This map is the work of W. Kentish of 'Form IV, Watford Endowed School'. It is one of nine that he drew in his marbled covered exercise book with...
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  • Monday 17th September 2012
    All a Matter of Size ...
    Herewith, a charming – and as it turns out – educative item, that recently arrived from the U.S. A map in two parts, the lower half being the...
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  • Thursday 13th September 2012
    EDWARD WELLER'S GREENWICH
    This is a map of Greenwich (London SE10) dating from around 1860. Specifically, it is a black and white lithograph (let wikipedia take you on that...
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  • Wednesday 22nd August 2012
    The Riot Act
    Our latest publication, a reconstruction of a Riot Act broadside, such as might have been held up to the crowd at Peterloo. 100 copies printed for us...
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  • Friday 21st October 2011
    Twas in Trafalgar's Bay
    Today is the anniversary of Lord Nelson's victory over the Combined Fleets of France and Spain in October 1805. The Battle of Trafalgar was a bitter-...
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