Town Hall
Toytown Building
1920-1930 (made)
1920-1930 (made)
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A model house in a Mock Tudor style of two storeys made primarily of card on a wooden base. The first floor overhangs all around the building. The ground floor is covered with paper with red brick printed on it. The first floor is painted white with brown beams and supports. The roof is of corrugated card largely unpainted. There are two steeply pitched roofs each with a white brick effect chimney. A large sign on the front has the words TOWN HALL cut out of thick card and above this is painted a shield with a coat of arms. The doorway has an entrance porch with bell pull and electric light bulb. Two smaller coats of arms flank the outside of the porch. The building is hollow with the back cut out and open.
Object details
Object type | |
Title | Town Hall (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Painted and glued plywood and card |
Brief description | Painted wood and card building, the Toytown Town Hall, made by S G Hulme Beaman in the 1920s |
Physical description | A model house in a Mock Tudor style of two storeys made primarily of card on a wooden base. The first floor overhangs all around the building. The ground floor is covered with paper with red brick printed on it. The first floor is painted white with brown beams and supports. The roof is of corrugated card largely unpainted. There are two steeply pitched roofs each with a white brick effect chimney. A large sign on the front has the words TOWN HALL cut out of thick card and above this is painted a shield with a coat of arms. The doorway has an entrance porch with bell pull and electric light bulb. Two smaller coats of arms flank the outside of the porch. The building is hollow with the back cut out and open. |
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Marks and inscriptions | TOWN HALL (on front of building) |
Credit line | Given by Betty Billett |
Object history | One of Hulme Beaman's own original Toytown buildings that he used for scene-setting prior to writing and illustrating his stories and plays |
Bibliographic reference | Hulme Beaman, S.G. The Book of Toytown and Larry the Lamb, London: Harrap, 1979 |
Collection | |
Accession number | B.16-2000 |
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Record created | January 30, 2001 |
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