The gift of the Artist. "Full Circle"

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The scheme is completed and the artist links all together. On the heights above the town, seen in the background, near the camp on Hollingbury Golf Course, excavators turn up a skull of one of the ancient Britons depicted in the first panel. Watching them are people in the dress of 1926 – golfers, a motor cyclist, and a Grammar School boy among them. One of the excavators holds up the skull for the inspection of him around whom so much in this Hall centres – Thomas Read. Educated under E J Marshal, he had taken part in the march from Grand Parade to Buckingham Road; he had worked for years to bring to fruition his scheme for the new school; he had led the school from Buckingham Road to Dyke Road. To the artist he must have been one of those Sussex characters who helped in his quiet way to build England, and here in this Hall his memory is surrounded by memorials to many of those to whom he devoted his life. |