A 1948 plaster relief mural of Henry Blogg
Contributed by Cromer Museum
A plaster relief mural of Henry Blogg by J. Moray-Smith, 1948
A portrait in oil on a plaster relief mural of Henry Blogg by J. Moray-Smith, 1948. The legend 1st Cox is along the bottom of the mural,. Henry is wearing 5 of his medals, and behind him on the left is a scene showing a boat being pulled down the beach, and on the right is a shipwreck, wooden frame.
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J. Moray Smith was a Scot who settled in Norwich in the late 1920s and worked for the Norwich Brewery in the 1940s and 1950s providing exterior and interior murals for pubs like the Ber Street Gates, the Coachmakers and the Woolpack.
This mural is one of three which were formerly in the Ship Hotel, Cromer but removed by the brewery when it was sold out of the trade in the 1980s. The brewery placed the portrait of Henry Blogg in the White Horse but retained the others for its offices in King Street, Norwich. When the brewery changed hands one of the murals depicting a 19th century lifeboat launch went to Gressenhall, while the Cromer scene went to the offices of Phoenix Inns. When that office was closed, the Cromer Scene was offered to the Cromer Museum and immediately put on display. |
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Additional Notes
Production Date: 1948
Theme: Lifesaving
Exhibition: Henry Blogg
Henry Blogg
black and white photograph of Cromer coxswain Henry Blogg with the Prince of Wales at a presentation ceremony in the Central Hall, Westminster, London
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Six steel double-pointed needles, of size 16 and 17 gauge, the type used for knitting ganseys.
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Harold Hems measuring the WRE Pelvis
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Henry Blogg and the Prince of Wales
A black and white photograph of Cromer coxswain Henry Blogg with the Prince of Wales at a presentation ceremony in the Central Hall, Westminster, London
The Battle of the Dogger Bank
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West Runton Elephant
photograph, colour slide, photographer Dr A.J. Stuart, 1992. Artist Sam Brown worked with Tony Stuart to envisage what the West Runton elephant looked like - this is one of his sketches. 1992
West Runton elephant, pelvis1990
photograph, colour slide, photographer Dr A.J. Stuart, 1990. Recovery of the pelvis of the West Runton elephant, using polyurethane foam; West Runton, Norfolk December 1990.
Henry Blogg Hovellor
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Henry Blogg. His life and times in photos - part 2.
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