Painter Girl / Newspaper Seller?

[Jill Sparrow 9,673]

Poor woman. It sounds as though she didn't have an easy life and somehow that communicated itself in her appearance and body language. She wouldn't be the first female to fall under the influence of an unsuitable male and pay the price for it (Ruth Ellis was, possibly, an extreme example).  Sadly, she won't be the last.

[annswabey 599]

I remember her well, but I don't know about her partner

  

[Tony Shaw 4]

With thanks to David for the information, I've now amended my blog post and included the information which I previously omitted. In view of the fact that this was so long ago, I don't think I'm doing any harm in revealing this. Admittedly some of the story comes from Sally's friend, the late Mick Mcminn, but I never once discovered him inventing things, and someone else at the time who knew Sally backed things up. I've omitted a few things about Sally because they're just too personal and of no interest anyway. Dr Tony Shaw: Sally, Nottingham Newspaper Seller and Pavement Artist. And Friends (tonyshaw3.blogspot.com)

[DAVIDW 1,625]

Tony, looking at your amended article it's obvious she must have had a hard life.

 

There was an article in the E.P. in 1984 on street buskers and artists in the city. 

It mentioned Sally amongst others and that when she had saved enough money from her pavement art she would like to go abroad .

Maybe her partner Sam died and she took the opportunity to fulfill her dream ?

She would be the type, who at that time would have gone off to somewhere like Ibiza and lived a hippy lifestyle . 

 

This was part of the Evening Post article :

So far she has only drawn in Nottingham although she would like to go further afield if she could raise the money from her drawings and also from murals and commissions which she does for private concerns.

......Later it says she would like to go abroad.

 

 

[Tony Shaw 4]

David, I don't think she'd be the type for Ibiza: far too much noise, as at the time it would probably still be experiencing the long summer of love. As someone with a mild case of Asperger's syndrome, I'm quite sure she had the same: the symptoms vary vastly, but she showed many of them, and raves don't fit into the frame.

 

And, yes, there's the money. There would be a great deal of it, and Mick told me he couldn't work out where Sam kept it, as it certainly wouldn't have been in a bank. I hope he told Sally where it was before he left the world, as she certainly deserved it.

[DAVIDW 1,625]

Ha ha being old and decrepit , I wasn't even considering raves .

I more imagined she would be doing her street art on a foreign seaside promenade. :)

[LizzieM 9,272]

I’ve read all about Sally on Nottstalgia but can’t say I ever saw her, heard her shouting ‘Evening Post’ or saw her pavement art.  This is no doubt because she wasn’t about when I was still in town, as I moved down south in 1975 and didn’t return until 2004.  I’m sorry I didn’t see this lady. 

[MRS B 327]

I can remember walking past Griffin and Spalding and hearing “evening post” quite loud.

[DAVIDW 1,625]

18 minutes ago, LizzieM said:

I’ve read all about Sally on Nottstalgia but can’t say I ever saw her, heard her shouting ‘Evening Post’ or saw her pavement art.  

Me neither Lizzie. We left Notts in 1981 , so before she started her job and street art but am intrigued as to what became of her.

 

One news item on her , indicates she left art school in 1983.

Many say she died young but although it's a fairly common name , I can't see any deaths in the records  for anyone of that name with a birthdate of 1958. 

[Cliff Ton 10,008]

I definitely remember her selling newspapers on Long Row with her unique, eccentric way of pronouncing 'Evening Post'; and I remember seeing her pavement art but I don't think I realised it was the same person.

 

I didn't know anything of her personal life, or what kind of person she was; but everything I've read here fits with what I saw.

[Brew 5,007]

Always struck me as a gentle soul, probably due to the subject matter of her drawings...

[Tony Shaw 4]

She was very gentle, but obviously saw the insult to her partner as an attack. She'd have been better off in Paris, where she'd have probably become an artist's or writer's muse like Nusch or Nadja.