Thomas Farnolls Pritchard | |
Our old friend and permanent resident in the house, T F Pritchard, continues to provide us with interest and research. Talks about him always produce a lively discussion and often some new information.
On a recent church photographing expedition we saw a monument to Dame Mary Smythe which we have often thought was Pritchard, but annoyingly there is no name on it.
We did manage to get a glimpse of the tree house at Pitchford through the autumnal foliage and were glad to see that it is still standing in the branches of its lime tree after more than two hundred years.
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Reprint! | |
The Old Houses of Shropshire has now been reprinted as the first run was sold out. We are very pleased that so many people have enjoyed the book and got to know Fanny Stackhouse Acton.
Over the years we have given many talks about her and these often produce interesting information from people in the audience who have known the houses she painted or knew one of the Knight family.
As with all our books, the story is never finished. | |
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Another Eyesight Sells in Europe | |
The Dog Rose Press is pleased that so many copies of Another Eyesight have been sold to people on the European mainland. These include Holland, Italy, Hungary, Sweden and Belgium. We have also sent copies to Canada, Australia and the USA.
Many of these countries take access very seriously and we look forward to receiving comments about the book from them. Any ideas and suggestions are always welcome and we like to hear that other people are doing in this field of access. | |
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Further information about Mrs Frances Stackhouse Acton | |
The sale of Old Houses of Shropshire, by Mrs Frances Stackhouse Acton - known to us as Mrs FSA - has been widespread with orders from mainland Europe as well as Australia.
Through these sales we receive further information about Mrs FSA and links to follow. Among the paintings in the third album of her work, is one of Beechwood Park, Hertfordshire. We wondered what the link was and discovered from a recipient of a book that a Miss Knight of Wolverley, Worcestershire, married a Sebright of Beechwood Park. Mystery solved.
By a strange coincidence, Beechwood Park, alias Tolmers, was Julia's old school - now a boy's school. Peter's brother went to the Sebright School in Wolverley, near Kidderminster, set up by the Sebright family. | |
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Old Shropshire Houses | |
| The latest publication, Old Shropshire Houses in the 19th century by Julia L Ionides and Peter G Howell - the watercolours of Frances Stackhouse Acton, with 222 pages and 369 colour and black and white illustrations, is available from December 2005 via this site. | |
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