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I have kids who are interested, like so many, in the crazy and mechanical and have enjoyed looking at Heath Robinson's work and also that of Rowland Emett. I have often thought that it would be good if there was an equivalent to the Rube Goldberg (cartoonist, illustrator, inventor) competitions that are held in the US for American high school students. Given the emphasis at schools these days on getting kids into science and engineering you'd think it would be a popular idea. Hope that is the sort of thing the Heath Robinson Trust might initiate.
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wow, DG, you stopped for lunch ... did you have a coffee too (just joking)
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There was a very interesting exhibition on Zoroastrianism at SOAS towards the end of last year. https://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/everlastingflame/
I see there is still a couple of weeks to get to the current exhibition on Sikhs in the First World War. https://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/efw/ |
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And woefully overlooked by the locals too! I was going to do all of these myself (I live just a 15 min stroll from the Zoroastrian Centre) but home duties got in the way.
Opportunity missed - until next year at least. |
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The projection box had 2 Gaumont Kalee 21 projectors in its cinema days.
Nice to know that the space is still being used, old projection boxes often get boarded up and abandoned when building use changes. |
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Ernest Bromidge also designed the Granada cinema Acton, which has recently been bought by a religious organization.
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Glad to see Heath Robinson (again) I remember the last time you showed his house. As an illustrator of children's books myself, I'm always delighted - but dismayed. Delighted to see he is so popular, but dismayed that he never got the attention he deserved for his poetic imaginative works along the line of Arthur Rackham. I think he was nearly the equal of Rackham, but the public continues to be totally swayed by his mechanical inventions. Ho hum...
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Drat! Missed you again (at the Grosvenor, which was a real gem). You really ought to devise some discreet way of recognising you for days when you felt like being sociable, so that we could sneak up and say "You are Diamond Geezer and I claim my prize", or just wink knowingly/disconcertingly.
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