Mosaic unveiling and celebration

On Saturday 13th January 2018 we gathered at St Thomas’s Church to unveil and celebrate our new mosaic.

We were delighted to have Ron Holloway and Ken Edwards to do the honours with the unveiling. Ron is in his 96th year and has lived on Greencroft Street for over 80 years. At the end of the Second World War he was delivering a tank from Bovington to Wilton, but took a detour down Greencroft Street where he parked up the tank to have a cup of tea with his Mum!

Ken Edwards grew up on Greencroft Street in the 1940s and 50s. His stories about the area include being sent over to the Barley Mow pub’s “jug and bottle” on the side of the pub to buy beer. Both Ken and Ron are featured on the mosaic design.

Ron Holloway and Ken Edwards ready to reveal the mosaic

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The mosaic is unveiled!

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Ron Holloway (on the mosaic with his tank!) and Ken Edwards (on the mosaic with his jug of beer!) after unweiling the mosaic.

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Greencroft Street brothers Ron and Stan Holloway

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Mosaic artist Joanna Dewfall explains the design process and mosaic technique.

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Project Co-ordinator Clare goes through the elements in the design

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Ken Smith talks about his Dad Jim's literary career...which explains why a frog in a red jacket is on the mosaic!

Jim Smith's frog in the foreground

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Ken as a boy getting beer from the Barley Mow pub's "jug and bottle"

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The loo at the end of a typical back garden!

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Mayor John Lindley expresses his delight at the mosaic

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Mayor of Salisbury John Lindley with our "unveilers" Ron Holloway and Ken Edwards

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Rector of St Thomas's Kelvin Inglis, who blessed the mosaic; Mayor John Lindley; Rev'd Jon Plows; ken Edwards, & Ron Holloway

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The bit everyone was waiting for...tea & cake

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