... farm house in 1941, or thereabouts, and can recall a nif;ht when the w hining noise of a falhng aircraft, amid the thump of bombs and ack-ack fire, was heard and it would seem that on such a night anything could fall out of the sky. The police inform me ...

... discoveries. One of the most memorable drawings in the original show was a sepia study of bomb damage in Liverpool. A whole group of comparable studies, this time of bombing in Poplar, have recently been found, still in the manilla envelope in which Minton sent ...

... such minor delights as in the black and gold cabinet of Figure 6, in which the design is skilfully adapted to the shape of a bombe Frenchified structure, and with great success. The cabinet is an unusually small piece, being less than 3ft in width. Among ...

... facing wider streets. The war both saved the Stokstraat, ·in that the plan was put to one side, and further damaged it, as bombs demolished a number of its properties. In 1945, 66 houses out of about 200 were considered uninhabitable, and 43 out of 300 ...

... raised by public subscription. The exhibits range from the ephemera of those wartime days to substantial reconstructions of anti-bomb blast Pride of pens, complete with planes (Fig 2). Pride of place is given to the aircraft representing the protagonists that ...

... measures sft3in by 3 ft. Circa 1810 • • ~J·· ;, -:;,:,r .-r; -:;,:,r .-r; - -- With a charm of its own, this small walnut bombe Commode has rich colouring and superb patination. The shaped top and frieze are but two of its many delightful features. William ...

... to May 6, and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, from May 19 to July 3 the wall. If he goes to the window he can see only a bombed townscape by Graham Sutherland and, in the distance, the fighting in Europe is in the wartime style of Picasso. His only escape ...

... period, 18th Century magnificent in quality, colou r and proportions', this positively splendid French kingwood Commode is of bombe form. Surmounted by a marble top and mounted with superb quality ormolu. piece will enhance any decor. Circa 1760. lt is 4 ...

... after the middle of the century of the square and shield-shaped dials by round ones; the introduction in about 1790 of the bombe or tear-shaped trunk, and the end of the decorative lacquerwork on the door. There are, however, certain distinct characteristics ...

... Polytechnic at the enthusiastic and crusading suggestion of Roger Fry. And, perhaps most interesting of allbut destroyed by bombing in 1940-was the Stephens's house in Brunswick Square, in whlch Grant and Etchells painted a large curving mural in a vaguely ...

... numerals vanished, to be replaced by a simple dotted minute ring. So, too, did the lacquered door, and the oak gave way to a bombe or teardrop trunk of mahogany or other fine furniture wood, often inlaid in Sheraton style with a patera or star. Even the ...

... the Paris premiere. There was talk of a strike in the orchestra, happily dispersed. On the night expectancy ran high and a bomb would have wiped out half of Europe's musical establishment. In the end, it was a triumph, as Berg's vision emerged accusing ...