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ALAN ROULSTONE

PUB ARTIST (1918-1989)

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Alan Roulstone
West Arms Llanarmon
Boat Inn Erbistock
Old Bull Horncastle
Ye Olde Poppe Inne Tatworth
Moon & Sixpence Tintern
Old Mill Shipston-on-Stour
victoria hotel llanbedr
Lake Bank Hotel Blawith
Kings Head Five Lanes
Silver Plough Pitton
New Inn Phillack
Three Crowns Chagford
Anchor Inn Bettws-y-Crwyn
Bicknoller Inn Bicknoller
Blue Pig Grantham
Bell Inn Stilton
Ye Olde Plough Bolnhurst
Black Swan Much Dewchurch
Sondes Arms Rockingham
Black Bull Mkt Overton
Bewicke Arms Hallaton
Salusbury Arms Tremeirchion
Cock Inn Sibson
The Pub History Society
Alan Roulstone lived on several occasions in Cornwall, and turned out a large number of oil-paintings for sale to holiday makers. Off-season, however, he continued to draw pubs, and his 1959 view of the The Kings Head at Five Lanes is representative of his commercial output in the duchy. The use made of trees and out buildings is yet another typical Roulstone Touch.
Kings Head at Five Lanes Cornwall 1959.
Another 1959 drawing is a fine interior view of the well-known Silver Plough at Pitton, Wiltshire. While not unique among Roulstone's surviving OEUVRE, the introduction of a scroll for the pub's name and location is certainly unusual. Very rightly, the drawing allocates considerable space to a most interesting bar-counter.
Silver Plough at Pitton Wiltshire 1959.
A second Cornish drawing, this one dating from 1960, is of the Bucket of Blood at Phillack, formerly known as the New Inn. The incorporation of a nearby church is a typical Roulstone ploy for adding interest to his composition; though as often happened the perspective may have had to be twisted slightly to facilitate its inclusion.
The New Inn at Phillack Cornwall 1960.

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