Showing posts with label Tollesbury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tollesbury. Show all posts

Tuesday 9 July 2013

Sketch of The Sail Lofts, Tollesbury

I sketched these Grade II listed Sail Lofts in Woodrolfe Road whilst visiting Tollesbury in Essex. They are hard to miss as you approach the marina along Woodrolfe Road, and have a charm all of their own. I should imagine it would keep an exterior painter very busy during a lifetime (as well as a carpenter), but what a lovely nest of lofts they are.

Tollesbury Parish Council's website tells us that the "Tollesbury Sail Lofts were built c.1900 to serve the local fishing fleet and probably the great J class yachts which were owned by wealthy Edwardians and skippered around the Mediterranean by men from Tollesbury. The most well known of these yachts, 'Flying' was entered by Tommy Sopwith in the Americas Cup."

Sail Lofts at Tollesbury
Tollesbury Sail Lofts


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Original sketch of Sale Lofts, Tollesbury, Essex  
Hand signed A4 Print of pencil sketch on 90lb watercolour paper £14.99
Original 13.5" x 10" pencil sketch on 140lb watercolour paper £55
© All illustrations Robert R Wisdom www.theartofengland.co.uk 2012   

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Sunday 30 June 2013

Tollesbury drawings

Visiting Tollesbury and ambling through the apparent disorder of moorings and boats in the sunshine is a pure joy.

There is the bright red Lightship (Trinity) which seems to be on the horizon wherever your vantage point.

There's also the old weather-beaten sheds placed here and there and the Marina full of boats and their rigging tapping in the wind. A must visit as the stroll to the lightship is most pleasant across Woodrolfe Creek and the marshes.

Tollesbury boat shed drawing


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Original drawing of old boat shed, Tollesbury, Essex  
Hand signed A4 Print of pencil sketch on 90lb watercolour paper £14.99
Original 13.5" x 10" pencil sketch on 140lb watercolour paper £55
© All illustrations Robert R Wisdom www.theartofengland.co.uk 2012  




Trinity Lightboat Tollesbury
The Trinity Lightboat, Tollesbury, Essex Print


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Original drawing of the Lightship, Tollesbury, Essex  
Hand signed A4 Print of pencil and ink sketch on 90lb watercolour paper £14.99
Original 13.5" x 10" pencil and ink sketch on 140lb watercolour paper £125
© All illustrations Robert R Wisdom www.theartofengland.co.uk 2012  

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