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KENT WELL A £7.1m project to restore Churchill’s study and studio at Chartwell in Kent to how it would have looked in the 1960s has been unveiled.
Project curator, Katherine Carter, said: “The studio contains the single largest collection of Churchill paintings in the world. It enables us to have a deeper understanding of him as an artist and the great pride he took in showcasing his paintings within that space.”
The restored rooms now include the wartime PM’s Nobel prize for literature, awarded in 1953, his wooden speech box,
a pair of hairbrushes made from wood from the deck of the WWII ship HMS Exeter and a miniature paint box.
Using historic photos and the memories of the secretaries themselves, the nearby office has been restored using original typewriters, telephones, address books and inkwells.
Research into his visitors’ book also revealed some previously undeciphered names. The book has now been digitised allowing today’s visitors the chance to scroll through the handwritten entries of more than 700 personalities who visited between 1924 and 1964, including Charlie Chaplin, the suffragette Christabel Pankhurst and David Lloyd George.
Above More than 140 paintings by Churchill appear as they would have done in the 1960s, © National Trust/ Liam Austen
Bottom left Churchill’s miniature paint box, © National Trust/John Hammond
Below The Chartwell office, © National Trust/ Kate York
For opening times and further information visit www.nationaltrust. org.uk/chartwell • In September a National Trust report listed 93 properties with a link to colonialism and slavery. Chartwell was included because of Churchill’s political role and opposition to selfgovernance in India.
6 ANTIQUE COLLECTING
Un-fair measures A large number of antiques fairs across the country have cancelled this month after news that events in conference centres and exhibition halls cannot go ahead this autumn.
The winter edition of Art & Antiques for Everyone, due to have taken place at Birmingham’s NEC from November 19-22 has cancelled while Adams Antiques Fairs, at London’s Royal Horticultural Halls, has pulled the plug on its monthly event.
Arthur Swallow Fairs is to stage pop-up, drive-in antiques markets held at short notice, dependent on regional lockdowns and restrictions.
B2B Events has changed its popular Malvern antiques and collectors fair on November 1 to a flea fair. Its two-day Detling antiques, vintage and collectors fair currently has the green light for November 7-8 with visitors advised to check the latest at www.b2bevents. info. For more details see the advert on page 63.
Above Indoor events were cancelled from October 1