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    Jun 11, 2021 3 minutes

    WALK THE LIONS

    I was delighted to discover one of our favourite walks featured in Artists & Illustrators [Issue 430]: the views enjoyed and recorded by LS Lowry of the old town of Berwick-on-Tweed. The harbour, river and coastline are always changing depending upon the weather and tides.

    Part of the walk, along the Elizabethan ramparts, passes “The Lions”, an austere house [above] built in 1807 facing the sea, that Lowry once contemplated. A fascinating example of a sketch of a house in a border town in Northumberland appearing as the subject in an industrial landscape.

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