Collingwood School

Frank Dadd (1851 - 1929) was the owner of the Springfield Road site from 1903 to 1919.  The pictures are the full size versions of those used to illustrate the article on his life story

The Dadd family - taken in the garden of the house in Springfield Road, then known as Morwenstow, circa 1912.  Standing, left to right, are Dadd's sons Ralph Hubert Dadd and Geoffrey Dadd.  Seated, left to right, are Dadd's wife Jessie (nee Hulbert), Frank Dadd, and his daughter Marjorie Dadd, who was also an artist.

 

 

The watercolour "Gold Lace has a Charm for the Fair", painted in 1908, is in the collection of the Tate Gallery.  The original is 330mm high and 470mm wide

 

 

"Winter Skating Scene", which also appeared as "A Merry Christmas from the Pears Annual, 1907"