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Frederick Leach: A Well-connected and Much-travelled Cambridge Artworkman
Heritage Open Day: In this talk Shelley Lockwood will introduce you to the life and the beautiful and extensive work of Mr Leach of City Road. Frederick Leach set up his firm of Artworkers at workshops in City Road in Cambridge in 1862. Over the next 40 years he travelled frequently by train and sometimes by steamship to estimate for, carry out and supervise decorative work in very many churches and grand houses all over the country, from Dundee to the Isle of Wight. From those workshops in Cambridge he also sent out small groups of workers - decorative artists, carvers, masons and joiners - with their tools and materials to stay at lodgings close to where they would be working. He communicated constantly with clients, workers, suppliers and family members by letter or postcard.
Tues 10 Sep:1930-2100; Free Entry.
Ross Street Community Centre, Ross Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB1 3UZ
Tue 10 September