Favourite works of art

[Chulla 4,946]

Wonderful innit! You post an interesting picture of cars in a nice English scene and the topic of conversation is the identity of something on an advertisement . I like it.

[Willow wilson 894]

The power of advertising!

Especially if it's ambiguous.

[loppylugs 8,427]

That's the magic of Nottstalgia innit?   I'm as guilty as anyone, but sometimes a post or a picture sends you off on a bunch of memories you had forgotten and you just have to post a reply.  From there the thread goes south.  

[Gem 1,430]

Made me think of the christmas cards that were around when i was a child, lovely memories.

[Chulla 4,946]

There are three cards by the artist Peter Miller in the collection. He specialises in Bentley cars in atmospheric settings. I posted one of them last year and here is another. It is titled Christmas Glow. The place is easy to identify - the clubhouse at the Brooklands race track. Didn't the old Bentleys have a lovely radiator shape. No Rootes blower on this one.

 

[Chulla 4,946]

Ben card 15. A different artist this time. No details but:

 

Am virtually certain that the car is an Alvis. The lorry, from its radiator top, looks like a Morris. The Matchless solid-frame motorbike puzzles me. Is it a twin-cylinder sloper, or a single-cylinder two-porter sloper? The silencer does not look right for the period.

 

Note the cooper in the workshop heating up the metal band rings ready for knocking down the barrel staves.

 

[Willow wilson 894]

There may be some artistic licence in the picture but after a search, my guess is the bike is a matchless model 35/CS 

 

And at £57 not cheap. 1935

[Chulla 4,946]

I think you are spot-on WW, after Googling it. It was a single-cylinder two-porter, 500cc.

 

Edit: The lorry's registration is a bit out, being 739CT

[PeverilPeril 3,279]

Now that is a picture I would hang on the wall! Movement and atmosphere in the background complete the period setting. I used to borrow a Matchless like that. 

[DAVIDW 1,681]

A work by Nottingham born artist Harold Knight born 1874 . On the 1881 Census he was living at 29 Derby Road with his parents . He went to Nottingham Art College and met Long Eaton born Laura Johnson who became Dame Laura Knight. This is his painting of her .

 

http://www.damelauraknight.com/artwork/girl-writing-1931/

 

 

[MargieH 7,599]

David,  I like that picture but it looks like a dinosaur is trying to eat through the window!   My eyes do play tricks sometimes, though!

[NewBasfordlad 3,599]

I see what you mean Margie, but as my father would say "She does have a well turned ankle", I never did know what he meant so if anyone has heard it before I would like to hear about it.

[Gem 1,430]

28 minutes ago, NewBasfordlad said:

I see what you mean Margie, but as my father would say "She does have a well turned ankle", I never did know what he meant so if anyone has heard it before I would like to hear about it.

I have heard it and took it to mean smart and well turned out, I had 3 uncles all in the services could it have originated from there ?

[DAVIDW 1,681]

2 hours ago, MargieH said:

David,  I like that picture but it looks like a dinosaur is trying to eat through the window!   My eyes do play tricks sometimes, though!

Yes Margie, see what you mean but it's the websites copywrite logo

[NewBasfordlad 3,599]

That may be where it comes from Gem, dad was in the army at the end of WW1 luckily here was to late in to be sent across to France.

[DAVIDW 1,681]

Apparently "a neat foot and well turned ankle" goes back to the 1600s

[philmayfield 6,115]

Basically it’s a euphemism for “well endowed” 

[MargieH 7,599]

What has a well turned ankle have to do with being well-endowed?  Am I being thick?

[MargieH 7,599]

Just googled it and it says 'shapely' or gracefully shaped'.  Now that makes sense to me!

[benjamin1945 16,139]

Thats exactly right Margie..........always known the phrase............and whilst there are very few feet  that do owt for me,............ive always loved a ''well turned ankle''

[Gem 1,430]

  

Maybe not an actual work if art but a beautiful oil on canvas of my grandaughters Great Dane by very talented artist Dave Moore.

[Gem 1,430]

2 hours ago, NewBasfordlad said:

That may be where it comes from Gem, dad was in the army at the end of WW1 luckily here was to late in to be sent across to France.

Nothing to do with ankles,  just wanted to tell you that thanks to your advice on Bens noise problem he no longer has a problem. Yesterday he was up front with other dogs just sat there when guns were fired, i also put your advice on our website where it has been followed.

Gem

[philmayfield 6,115]

35 minutes ago, MargieH said:

What has a well turned ankle have to do with being well-endowed?  Am I being thick?

It's a euphemism that my friends and I have used for many years - we know what we mean!

[MargieH 7,599]

Our eldest son is a bit artistic and recently drew his dog and a friend's dog.... they'll never be famous works of art but I like them (of course!)

 

D

[loppylugs 8,427]

I always understood the term well turned ankle to be a term dating from Victorian days.  I think at that time of long dresses it was somewhat risqué to see a lady's ankle.  I'm with Margie on this one.  I've never understood it to mean anything else.