A Holiday Task Tavistock Chapel showing figures labouring

showing figures labouring

Original is oil on canvas 40x50

29th April 1978

View looking west of Barbican (Street) from the end of Red Cross Street and Golden Lane

A Holiday Task Tavistock Chapel showing figures labouring'A Holiday Task', 1880. A bewhiskered aristocrat is handed a broom by Mr Punch and told to begin cleaning up. Great pieces of the inner cities were owned by the aristocracy. Rents were expensive, whilst conditions were appalling. The owners would rarely visit their holdings, leaving business to do with leases and rent collection to their representatives. Few made any effort to ensure that the accommodation provided was habitable. From Punch, or the