Posted by Peter Hyland on December 18, 2014 at 14:08:31 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Auction of Ransome originals plus an AR response card from 1939 posted by Roger Wardale on December 18, 2014 at 11:46:44:
"Tars will believe what they want . . ."
A pregnant statement if ever there ever was! Hastening back to the 'North Pole' topic:- Roger did not mention the Old View House at Borrans Park. Has this now been dispensed with as the inspiration for the 'North Pole' building? A TARS party claimed to have found the site by dowsing in 1993, and the theory was that the OVH had not been shown on maps because it was merely a wooden building and not considered permanent. The OVH had an apse-like frontage similar to that drawn in WH. I think this is a far more likely source than the Brantwood turret, which some Tars, including Roger (MM 2011), have pointed to. Wrong shape and wrong position, surely?