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Transcript: Mr Walter John Ferguson recalls the noted Australian artist Eric Wilson
A Game of Draughts 1933
Crackenthorp, Spencer
A game of draughts 1933
Children playing at Riverside Park by the Cooks River, Marrickville 1936
Croquet and archery in the grounds of Enmore House, Newtown c1865-70
Digit Dick's Walkabout on the Barrier Reef : a game based on the story by Leslie Rees c1950
Girls skipping at Athletics Carnival c1900
Marbles are in 1886
On the razzle dazzle, in Prince Alfred Square, Parramatta 1932
Spinning tops 1886
Mr Walter John Ferguson, interviewed in 1986, recalls Australian artist Eric Wilson who lived in Liverpool in the 1930s, and his painting 'A game of draughts'

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Transcript: Mr Walter John Ferguson recalls the noted Australian artist Eric Wilson

Mr Walter John Ferguson, born in 1912, interviewed in 1986 for 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960' project, recalls the noted Australian artist Eric Wilson.

A Game of Draughts 1933

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Painting by Eric Wilson which is held in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and was a gift of the Liverpool Memorial School of Arts in 1963.

Crackenthorp, Spencer

Chess champion.

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A game of draughts 1933

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By
Eric Wilson
Contributed By
National Gallery of Australia
[Accession No: NGA 63.116]
(oil on canvas
98 x 112 cm
Gift of the Memorial School of Arts, Liverpool NSW 1963)

Children playing at Riverside Park by the Cooks River, Marrickville 1936

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Contributed By
Marrickville Council Library and History Services
[R3.335b]

Croquet and archery in the grounds of Enmore House, Newtown c1865-70

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a089389 / SPF/389]
(Mitchell Library)

Digit Dick's Walkabout on the Barrier Reef : a game based on the story by Leslie Rees c1950

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[nla.pic-vn3187410-s1]

Girls skipping at Athletics Carnival c1900

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Contributed By
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
[85/1286-772]
(Tyrrell Photographic Collection)

Marbles are in 1886

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By
T Hewett
Contributed By
Graham Trevena
[Page 2d]
(from the album 'Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of N.S.W presented by the Society to His Excellency Lord Carrington August 1886')

On the razzle dazzle, in Prince Alfred Square, Parramatta 1932

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[BN181]
(The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, 15 August 1932, p2)

Spinning tops 1886

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By
T Hewett
Contributed By
Graham Trevena
[Page 2c]
(from the album 'Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of N.S.W presented by the Society to His Excellency Lord Carrington August 1886')

Mr Walter John Ferguson, interviewed in 1986, recalls Australian artist Eric Wilson who lived in Liverpool in the 1930s, and his ...

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Mr Walter John Ferguson, born in 1912, interviewed in 1986 for 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900-1960' project, recalls the noted Australian artist Eric Wilson, who lived in Liverpool, and his painting A Game of Draughts

Transcript:
WALTER: In the main street there used to be a chap by the name of Wilson, he was a saddler, and he had one son, I think his name was Eric. He was a pretty good artist. He painted one very good one, and it hung for years in the School of Arts, of Old Bill Ashe and John Grace. They were, I'm not sure, it was that long ago now, whether it was a game of draughts or a game of chess they were playing, and Eric painted this. I know it was shifted, I don't know where it went, and I didn't find out until round about 1956 or 58, could've been a bit later again.

I was working at a place and got to know a young fella in there. He was one of the young Ashe's, Bill's son. I said to him one day, I said 'Was Bill Ashe who used to live in Liverpool your father?' He said 'Yes' I said 'You used to live over near the Clinch's Pond?' He said 'Yes, at the orchard, we had an orchard there'. He said to me, he says 'Did you ever see a painting of Dad's father, my grandfather?' 'Yes', I said, 'It used to hang in the School of Arts'. He said 'That's right',' but, he said 'It don't hang there anymore.' I said '1 knew it went'. He said 'Do you know where it is?' He said 'It's in the National Art Gallery in Canberra'.

Contributed By
Liverpool City Library
[BRN: 56334]
(Detail from interview with Mr Walter John Ferguson and Mr George Bates, from the 'Looking back at Liverpool : an oral history of the Liverpool region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith.)

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