A love Letter to Market Harborough

September 2021, as part of the Harborough Artist’s Cluster, and on behalf of our stitch group ‘Aspects of Stitch’, I took over the window of ‘Pressing Appointments’, the dry cleaner’s on Coventry Road.

In the first window I showed some ion the more illustrative stitched textiles. The ‘who whoop’ foxes that must have escaped from the Pythcley Hounds Feb 16th 1920 as commenmorated a little further up Coventry Road.

My great grandfather , Corporal William Holman is recorded on the Hospital Portico War Memorial as one for the fatalities of WW1. This work is equidistant between that memorial and the one on the Town Square. As one of the many Barbarians born in the old Cottage Hospital (so was my dad and Uncle John) it seems fitting to bring us all back together on this spot.

Dad served his national service in the navy and the flag places him at the age of 18 against his grandfather, superimposed with the details of how much he was paid for his service til his death in April 1917. There is also a tribute to William Cheney, my grandfather who served in WW2.