1944

Installs the Wyndham Art Collection at the Spennymoor Settlement. The exhibition is organised by CEMA (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, London). Rejected in a previous engagement because ‘he was a miner.’ Meets Sarah Bartley at the Clarence Ballroom, Spennymoor. Her father had been a miner and her grandfather was a founder member of Blackhall Colliery Band. He travels often to Trimdon where the ‘Rail Crossing and Signal Cabin’ were regular subjects for drawing.