Blackwater Visit to The Clink and Queen's Gallery

Another cold morning in February and an early start took a group of members and

friends to London to visit first The Clink Museum in Borough. We were given a

conducted tour enlivened by our guide - a pantomime actor.

Rosemary Bacon provided a "willing" temporary inmate. We had divided into two

groups and could also visit the restored market and Southwark Cathedral + excellent

market pubs. Then on to

The Queen’s Gallery and a view of the excellent Northern Renaissance: Dürer to

Holbein. Exhibition. Superb images in a beautiful setting

A full report will appear in the Summer Newsletter.

Entrance to The Clink

Ellen Butler waxwork

Begging for food

The Cat O Nine Tails

Some illustrations and captions from the Queen's Gallery taken by Alec Fraser

The reference to infra - red "shadow" images of the painted out children is borne out

in this detail photograph - as Alec comments " The narrative is self explanatory, and

includes by the infra-red magic the overpainted details of the children but if you look

at the detail photo which I took it's quite possible to see the feet of the child

originally present. Perhaps this is due to the infra-red sensitivity of the camera, as I

don't recall this being visible to the naked eye.