Deliveries  2016

John A Walker, ‘Deliveries’ (10/2016) oil on linen, 76 x 50 cm [br]In 1940s and ’50s, working class families benefited from home deliveries such as coal, newspapers, groceries, milk and post. Three such deliveries are depicted in this townscape. As a result of social, technological and economic changes, coal deliveries have now virtually ceased and milkmen and women are f...