Keeping time
During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, while many households across the country were using the time to have a clear-out, professional illustrator, designer and passionate photographer Jon Higham was benefiting from someone who never had. Higham’s father-in-law, John Strevett, is a lifelong hoarder. When John’s wife died, unable to look after himself, he joined finances with daughter Katie and Jon to buy an ancient house, full of character, near Bexhill with a view towards the South Downs. John has a private space next to the cellar where he lives among his artefacts.
It was the perfect enterprise for Jon to complete during lockdown. ‘I just started examining his stuff,’ he explains. ‘I thought, there’s a huge project here and I started cataloguing it, about 37 pages. I gave it up after a while as that alone was a lifetime’s work. I was
