Weymouth In Old Postcards and Photographs

The Sand Artist

A picture of the artist at work.

These models of Cathedrals created using sand and water amazed me as a child, the intricacies
of the architecture were captured in such fine detail.

You were invited to throw coins at a tin covered with a piece of canvas in which a slot had been cut. Success was indicated by the ring of a bell.

Fred Darrington, the artist pictured here, died at the age of 92.