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The Outside Viewing Tank Painting reproduced by kind permission of the Imperial War Museum |
This enigmatic painting by Yunge Bateman was a puzzle. We looked for the location of the outside viewing tank and assumed it was on the roof of the gallery. The the cuppola in the background is the bell tower on top of the old girls' school. It was not until William Glasson revealed the plan of the Old Gallery that its location was found. At the back of the gallery where offices were later built. |  |
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Photograph of Commander Yunge-Bateman working inside the Gallery, testing arctic camouflage design on a model battleship . Photograph reproduced from Picture Post |
It was only after the war in November 1945 that knowledge of the Unit's work became public, when Picture Post published an article. They used Joan Hollick, a local woman who was recruited by the Unit to work on naval camouflage, as their cover. She is seen here with one of the model ships that was used in the naval section. |
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 Photograph reproduced by kind permission of Virginia Ironside |
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Eric Schilsky, artist and scupltor, seen here posing next to one of the gravestones in Spencers Yard. Similar gravestones can still be seen propped up against the old church today. |
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A group of camoflague artists gathered around the old sundial in Spencers Yard in the 1940s, included in the group are l-r: C. Shelley, Edwin Le Dell, Christopher Ironside, ?, Yunge Bateman. Intriguingly, the only known image of the Rink is on the left hand side of this picture. Also a picture of Spencers Yard as it is today taken from a similar place. Photograph reproduced by kind permission of Virginia Ironside |
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If you would like to read an extract from the memoir by Felicity Sutton (née Fisher), a young artist recruited in London, click here to download an MS Word document. |
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