Today the expedition was to a ruined brickworks. This involved walking align a well tended path by a river, complete with traces of a narrow gauge railway. The walk got narrower and narrower and more over grown until we arrived at the old brickworks. The immense chimney is still intact and most of a kiln which is highly decorated with graffiti on the inside but the chimney is too big for this one kiln and there must have been a lot more once. The one kiln would hardly need a railway to take the output down to ships in the harbour.
This was all done by midday and we decided to go to the Oriel Gallery where there is a large collection of paintings and drawings by Kiffin Williams. All a bit black acrylic paint studies of Snowdon. His linocuts and ink drawings are a different matter all together and are really interesting. A bonus was a gallery devoted to the bird painter Charles Tunnicliffe. I know his work from Nature into Art which had several of his paintings. He lived on Anglesey, hence the gallery. Lovely. Very cheering.
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