Finally today
English painter
Diane Demirci artist
Twenty years in design and advertising before deciding to become a full time artist
Inspired by nature and textures
Devon based painter
‘Late Summer Afternoon’
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Back tomorrow.
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Blackberry & wild hedgerow plum season has begun (early due to the heat waves). Here’s my recipe for infusing them in gin to make delicious homemade liqueurs & some of my blackberry illustrations 🫐🍒🌿🍷:
21 July 1902 | A Pole, Kazimierz Skwarczewski, was born. An engineer electrician.
In #Auschwitz from 19 August 1942.
No. 60094
He perished in the camp on 18 September 1942.
Whodunnit? - Final Drive (21st July 1975). Steven Pacey and Simon Williams are amongst the suspects whilst the lovely Aimi MacDonald, Alfred Marks, Anouska Hempel and Patrick Mower play detective.
Happy Bill Pertwee Day! Bill would have turned 💯 today. As well as ‘Dad’s Army’ & ‘You Rang, M’Lord?’, Bill carried on twice in Loving as the barman and Girls as the fire chief. Happy heavenly birthday Bill. ❤️
Filming locations from Carry On Girls (1973)
Formerly Clarges Hotel in Brighton at 115–119 Marine Parade. Owned by Carry On Sergeant actress Dora Bryan and her husband. 🏨🏩
20 July 1943 | 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy in German-occupied France arrived at Auschwitz. After the selection, 369 men & 191 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 440 people were murdered in a gas chamber.
Among those registered in the camp was Alma Rosé, an Austrian Jewish violinist, a niece of Gustav Mahler. She was registered with the no. 50381.
She was initially placed in Block 10 of the main camp for sterilization experiments. There, she was recognized by one of the other inmates. Thanks to the efforts
of the block leader, a violin was secretly brought to her, which she played in the evenings.
Over time, word of her exceptional playing reached
the SS guards, as a result of which she was transferred to Auschwitz II-Birkenau and appointed the conductor of the women’s orchestra. She held this function for 10 months.
At the beginning of April 1944, she perished in the camp.
Our podcast about orchestras at Auschwitz: https://t.co/kZp4xmY9BF
Remember in the 1950’s fetching an ice cream brick for a treat from the corner shop,
The shopkeeper would wrap it in newspaper to help to keep it cold until I got home.
We are the shoes, we are the last witnesses.
We are shoes from grandchildren and grandfathers
From Prague, Paris and Amsterdam,
And because we are only made of fabric and leather
And not of blood and flesh,
Each one of us avoided the hellfire.
(Mosze Szulsztajn)
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Photo: https://t.co/PMr4nMW4dp