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The Fairground at Daisy Nook - 1948
There were only two statutory holidays for the
mill workers, Good Friday and Christmas Day, and because of the
influx of people into Daisy Nook, an annual festival was held on
Good Friday. Good Friday at Daisy Nook was an ideal scene for
Lowry. Run by the Silcock family, it provided a great variety of
entertainment and refreshments. The open fields filled with
pleasure seeking people and Lowry was there to record them.
Although there is only a hint of industry, the chimney far in the
background, Lowry found the scene sufficiently important to paint
many versions of the same event.
As with his industrial paintings, the crowds
fills the foreground and the activates, both planned and unplanned
, seem infinite. Everywhere one looks, something is going on. The
tents and caravans form a thin line between the foreground and
background and act as a boundary to the scene. There are few rural
scenes which Lowry could depict as he did his industrial ones,
other than the great fairs. In this case, there is no doubt that
Lowry was accurate in his rendition, particularly of that lonely
chimney and building standing on the hill.
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