Bath Tec School

Hi Guys,

Peter Coard has captured quite alot of "old Bath" in pencil drawings .. some of the demolished parts of the city .. his work is (sometimes) the only visual record .. I agree Rich, we never saw the creator .. just the teacher ..I`m gratefull for his encouragement in art .. especially when I realize from my old reports I did not take much interest in anything else (from a practical point of view).

 

If you do a search on Google about Peter Coard .. you`ll be suprised just what will turn up .. catch you all soon .. time for me to get dinner ready .. nothing fancy, if it doesn`t fit in a Microwave ..I don`t do it ..

I'm surprised you guys hadn't come across Peter Coard's work earlier, I remember seeing reproductions of his drawings in the Chronicle on a few occasions over the years, perhaps I was more aware as he lived in Lyncombe Vale, next door to Steve Pearson, who I had known through junior school. As you both have seen Peter was an acomplished artist, what he was doing teaching us oiks I'll never know.

I suppose it depends on the size of the microwave, doesn' it Bill ?

 

Rich

Rich,

Perhaps I should have said food "appropriate" .. rather than fit .. we have an "old faithfull" Panasonic which is a goodly size ..purchased in 1983 ..yes 1983 .. when Microwaves were real Microwaves .. with big transformers .. not the switch mode "quick blow" disasters that are currently on offer  ..I have to admit to opening my wifes eyes about what can be cooked  in a conventional microwave .. ( not the "mixed grill" variety) quite "green" and very energy efficent .. induction hobs are also .. but they (hobs) are a bit choosy about what pans they`ll work with .. hey .. much more of this and we`ll have our own cookery class going on .. who`d thought it eh? .. Bath Tech Boys with "Hat- e-Chewed" 

Bill, do you want my recepie for ratatouille? and harissa?

I boldly go Stu .. no pun intended ..

http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/6996296/used/Vanishing%20Bath this link will lead you to the various BOOKS that Peter Coard and his wife/sister /partner wrote .. see, not just the visual Artist we all thoght he was

Bill, those are some nice pics you've just posted of Peter Coard, even though I dropped Art in favour of Metalwork and Tech Drawing, God knows why, I always remember him as being less teacherish than most, it may be the fog of time but his lessons always seem to have been laid back, and with the added bonus of no homework and therefore no lame excuses as to lack of same.

 

Question, have you got a spare room full of old Chronicles or do you have a season ticket to the library archieve? And what are you, (me), doing indoors on a nice day like this, ah I know I'm supposed to be laying a new vinyl floor in the kitchen while her indoors is at work, oops!

 

Stu

Stu,

I`m waiting in for my "man who does" .. the lawns that is .. he treats all three lawns with his little machines .. I still cut them .. about an hour of walking .. keeps me fit .. glad you liked the piccies .. there`s more besides .. skydrive .. photos .. yes amateur historian and observer (with binoculars) Ha Ha  .. I put my hands up Stu ..I have a drawer full of old piccies from the Chron and some of their "Special editions" and a few "Memories" series of photos etc .. got some of the Pav and Regency ... some with my old mate Mick Ringham (and Rose his wife) in the "Chron" as well.

That reminds me Bill, there was a piece in the Uncut, a music magazine, last month, about the first Glastonbury where "Mad Mick" got a mention as the resident DJ at the very first Glastonbury festival.

 

Stu 

Thanks for that snippet Stu, Michael and I started work together at the Co-op in Westagate Buildings Bath and remained good friends (he used to live in a flat on the Moorfields Estate) .. spent a lot of his spare time keeping me company in my "plaster" years at my house in Third Avenue. Used to transport me about on his scooter, Later on we spent a fair bit of time in the company of  various local musicians and at the Regency etc. When he got married to Rose in 1970-1 he was living up Burligton Street, I gave him & Rose a wedding present, but don`t do weddings  .. I moved to Timsbury and we sort of drifted into our own things .. kept in touch with him over the years during his various reincarnations .. St.Ives shop owner/ Bath Market Cheese Stall holder/Upper Borough Walls Tea Rooms / Oldfield park Estate Agent etc .. last spoke to him in 2002 at The Pavilion in Bath when he compered (D.J.`d) Paul Davis`s ( Drummer? of Bath Group Birth) fund raising event for the Rebecca Trust set up by Peter Beale.

There are times Bill when coincidences, sometimes small and tenuous, never fail to amaze me, I'd forgotten that Mick Ringham had a shop in St.Ives, friends of ours moved there 35 years ago, and you've revived the memory of Mick's name coming up in conversation and bumping into him once when visiting, only to say "hello Mick", I didn't know him that well, just another face. And back in about '69 a couple of friends and I booked Birth to play a gig at the church hall at the top of Snow Hill where it meets Fairfield Road, the gig was OK but our careers as music entrepreneurs was rather short lived.

 

Stu