Weekend Mural Update
Here some more photos of the Stanwell Mural. Today we also had a BBQ before rain stopped play. Thanks to all the helpers.
Mural design
We’ve been sketching and gathering and have finished the design for the Our Green mural. Click to view the LONG sketch with our notes about all the Stanwell characters and stories that have inspired the mural.
View the full design sketch ›
Mode2
Artist Mode2 joins the Stanwell Our Green mural team. Click to check his drawings and the final mural design.
King Henry VIII ruins Christmas
This is an interpretation of the time when King Henry VIII visited Lord Winsor at his home around christmas time. It was just for a few days…
The Historians tell me that King Henry VIII (not known for his flexibility) during his stay, found Stanwell manor such a pleasant place, his majesty took it upon himself to demand it be handed over to the throne.
Lord Windsor’s family protested, they had held the manor for generations and he begged the King to reconsider.
The King would hear none of it. He helped himself to the manor of Stanwell, and sent Lord Windsor to a new manor far far away.
Carp fishing
Some of the fish experts down at charlies cafe showed me some pictures of huge carp they had caught in lakes all around Stanwell. I asked them what they used for bait, they told me: bread. I caught this mirror carp in my book today, and nearly went blind trying to draw all the scales.
Can somebody please take me fishing?
Anglo-Saxon stream
There has been a settlement in Stanwell from long before Anglo-Saxon times. Discoveries of flint tools in the area show this to be true. No one knows exacty how old the settlement is, but experts believe that the Anglo-Saxons may have given it the name: ‘Stanwell’ meaning ‘Stoney stream’
Over the years it has been known by many abbrieviations: ‘Stannel’ in the 1920s and today to some locals its ‘Stanweazy’ or ‘Stanwizzle’
Tales of mythical beasts such as dragons and phoenix were popular in the Anglo-Saxon times as there was no 3D cinemas and you went to war with an axe at an early age. How peaceful it would have been in those times to find a quiet spot by a stoney stream in springtime with the bluebells all around…