Bombed Gallery

Bombed site, Hampstead, 1951. Creator: Shirley Markham

Bombed site, Hampstead, 1951. Empty lot in London after World War Two bombing. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952. The writer, artist, poet, and illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was one of her tutors, and her style of drawing was also influenced by other British illustrators such as Edward Ardizzone, Quentin Blake and Edward Bawden. Markham spent time in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy, and also visited Rome, sketching classical buildings. After graduating from Central, she worked as a graphic designer, producing book illustrations, cartoons for comics, menus and programmes. She gave up her promising career however when she got married in 1957. Middle-class women at that time were expected to devote their energies to bringing up children and running the home, and despite her obvious talent, she lacked the confidence to return to illustration. Her portfolio remained in the family attic for many years, but now her work is published here for the first time

© Shirley Markham Collection / Heritage-Images

Ruins of the Renault Factory, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, c1942

Ruins of the Renault Factory, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, c1942. The Renault factory, in the town of Boulogne-Billancourt just west of the centre of Paris, was making an estimated 18, 000 lorries a year for the German forces, and so was bombed by the allied air force, 1942

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