Delivery boy Grimsby  2013

oil on linen, 71 x 107 cm [br] As a teenager during the 1950s, to earn pocket money, I worked for a time as a delivery boy for a grocers in the West Marsh district of Grimsby. The terraced streets of identical, red brick houses laid out in a regular grid fashion struck me as both epic and melancholic. The houses had been built during the late nineteenth century as cheap a...