Ken White painting is toast of rail museum [Swindon Advertiser]





Date: 02/11/2013

Thanks to the Friends of Swindon Railway Museum, the STEAM Museum has now acquired a painting produced by internationally acclaimed artist and muralist Ken White.
The oil on canvas painting, entitled The Rivet Hotters, depicts a group of GWR rivet hotters gathered round a brazier, making their toast at lunchtime. The Rivet Hotters is one of many paintings in Ken^s collection that reflect the time he spent at the famous Swindon Railway Works as a rivet hotter and later as a signwriter.


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Ken White painting is toast of rail museum

Swindon Advertiser

THANKS to the Friends of Swindon Railway Museum, the STEAM Museum has now acquired a painting produced by internationally acclaimed artist and

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The man himself. Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The impressive waxwork on display at the Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon on 20 March 2013.
Location: Steam - Museum of the Great Western Railway
Company: Great Western Railway
20/03/2013 Peter Todd


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