Gallery 2022
All of our Cray 150 books are published with the intention to provide interesting and enjoyable reading. We also like to showcase the artistic talent of our contributors who kindly send us their drawings, paintings and photographs. Many readers have congratulated us on the attractive illustrations that are found on the outside covers and on the inside pages of our books. We are pleased that this is an extra and much appreciated merit of our books. Here now in our Gallery 2022 we provide a small sample of the many splendid illustrations that we have been delighted to include in our books.
All of our Cray 150 books are published with the intention to provide interesting and enjoyable reading. We also like to showcase the artistic talent of our contributors who kindly send us their drawings, paintings and photographs. Many readers have congratulated us on the attractive illustrations that are found on the outside covers and on the inside pages of our books. We are pleased that this is an extra and much appreciated merit of our books. Here now in our Gallery 2022 we provide a small sample of the many splendid illustrations that we have been delighted to include in our books.
Our social history book Wandering Through the Crays (published 2015; reprinted 2022) continues to be one of our most popular best-sellers. You can buy a copy at the Croft Tea Room, 263 High Street St Mary Cray.
During the lockdowns our permitted daily excursions into the open air were precious moments to savour and appreciate the natural world around us. Geraldine Ann Ford sent us this photograph of Sidcup Place in the autumn of 2020. We were pleased to include it in Our Covid Calendar a collection of art, poetry and stories in which twenty-six local residents of Orpington and the Crays recorded their experiences and impressions of the pandemic. You can buy a copy at the Croft Tea Room, 263 High Street St Mary Cray.
The Isle of Anglesey in North Wales is the setting for Michael Gould's short novel Undertow also featuring a south London suburb. The story is set in 1961. You can buy a copy at the Croft Tea Room, 263 High Street St Mary Cray. Our cover photo shows the spectacular Menai Bridge that links Anglesey to the mainland.
At Cray 150 we never overlook black & white as a medium that can give striking artistic effect such as this photograph from our Crayons in my Scrapbook book. That said, the schoolboy collector of this photograph decided at the time in August 1958 that he must add some colour! Jimmy Greaves of Chelsea (far left) is readying to score in a 6 - 2 win versus Wolverhampton Wanderers. This and many other classic photos and archive items are included in our delightful little book of local football nostalgia from the 1940s and 1950s. You can buy a copy at any Cray Wanderers home match or at the Croft Tea Room, 263 High Street St Mary Cray.
A classic photo of a classic car! It was owned by Mr A.J. Tatham whose building firm in St Mary Cray ran an advertisement in the Cray Wanderers match programme in the early 1950s. The car came up for auction in 2011. In our amusing little book Shirts that Stand the Strain you can find many interesting and quirky items relating to local advertisers in Cray Wanderers football programmes throughout history. You can buy a copy at any Cray Wanderers home match or at the Croft Tea Room, 263 High Street St Mary Cray.
