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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
He did likewise for the Bewicke Arms at Hallaton, also in Leicestershire, which he drew twice in 1970 for different landlords. Again one notes his habit of thrusting his ostensible subject back into the middle distance in order to make a feature in its own right of something in the foreground; a trait which by this date had become almost automatic - and effective.
The Bewicke Arms at Hallaton 1970.
An excellent example of this is to be found in his 1971 view of the Salusbury Arms at Tremeirchion, Clwyd. It may be hazarded, nevertheless, that the undue prominence given to an old street-lamp constitutes an instance of artistic licence; a ploy more usually applied to especially attractive inn-signs.
The Salusbury Arms at Tremeirchion 1971.
Roulstone's interior 1972 view of the Cock Inn at Sibson, Warwickshire is not only excellent drawing, but offers a perfect example some of the changes to have overtaken the English pub during the 1960s, which the artist recorded as they were taking place. Here again the old has been meticulously retained, but there is much too that is new, and this was highly typical.
The Cock Inn at Sibson 1972.

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