The Kings School

1991

Reference Number:-	Sprake Number:-	Godden Number:-
obk 112	not listed	not listed

Brocklehurst-Whiston (BWA) silk picture of the boys playing cricket in the grounds of The Kings School

The image of this silk was very kindly donated by Mary Brittan, UK.

Words:

Woven on silk:-
BROCKLEHURST		WOVEN IN SILK 1991
Printed at bottom of card mount:-
	THE KINGS SCHOOL MACCLESFIELD

Legend printed on separate paper accompanying silk:-
The Kings School in Macclesfield was founded in 1502 by Sir John Percyvale as a 'free grammer school, teaching there gentlemen's sons of town and country thereabouts'. The school was given its Royal Charter in 1552. It moved to its present site in 1855. Over the centuries numerous old boys joined the company and helped expand silk weaving and printing for which the town became famous.

Size:

Card mount:
cm deep by cm wide

silk:
11.2 cm high by 18.2 cm wide

Technical Details supplied by Lewis Cowen:

First Sketch:	Mr Stephen Clayton
Design Draft:	Walbank and Parkin Ltd
Card Cutter:	Walbank and Parkin Ltd
Weaving:	Mrs Marlene Lawson
Design No:	unknown

Comments:

by Lewis Cowen:
We come now to the 1991 issue - THE KINGS SCHOOL, which was the penultimate woven picture. Although the majority of collectors regard it as the final one, it was followed by The Pandas in 1992.

Other comments:

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