Mary Morris, Post Office Assistant

© the artist. Image credit: Girton College, University of Cambridge

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For as long as anyone can remember, Mary Morris’s family have lived in and around Longtown, a small village on the edge of the Black Mountains, on the border between Herefordshire and Wales. Like many rural villages, it has changed enormously over the years. Once it had butcher’s and grocer’s shops and a garage. Now there is only the general stores with a Post Office inside, which is where she has worked as counter assistant for the past decade. The village, a long row of houses on either side of the main street and little else, is aptly named. Along with its church, chapel and pub, the shop is the hub of local life. It’s where villagers pick up their daily newspaper and buy everything from toiletries and household goods, through local fruit and vegetables, to fresh and frozen food.

Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge

Cambridge

Title

Mary Morris, Post Office Assistant

Date

2000

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 97 x W 71 cm

Accession number

476

Acquisition method

on loan from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

signature and date

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