We’ve got a tricentenary coming up: John Carr, at various times through his life a stone mason, bridge surveyor, architect and Mayor of York, was born in Horbury, in a cottage that still stands at the lower end of Cluntergate, in 1723.
I’m designing an exhibit for the town’s Redbox Gallery, in the repurposed telephone box on Queen Street. Perhaps a three dimensional version of my cartoon, drawn for a birthday card a year or two ago, would be an eye-catching solution and an excuse to bake a three-tier cake for the launch party.
We want to get away from the portrait of him at the height of his success, looking like a rather stuffy Georgian gentleman.