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	<title>David Watkin &#187; David Watkin at home&#8230;</title>
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		<title>David Watkin and his rugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Watkin at home...]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About twenty years ago in the morning the front door bell rang. At the time I was living in a Brunswick Road, a barrel fronted Regency terrace just off the sea front in Hove. It was a blustery day and as I opened the door I was confronted by a slightly scruffy  individual, wearing an old raincoat and plimsoles. &#8220;Hello I&#8217;m David , Jill recommended you, she said you sell Persian rugs&#8221; &#8220;Er Jill?&#8221; I said. &#8220;Yes Jill Palmer in The Lanes (Brighton), the antique dealer&#8221; &#8220;Oh you had better come in&#8230;&#8221; That was how I met David Watkin. He proceeded to come in, go through my stock and select the better items. Not necessarily those in the best condition but certainly the best aesthetically &#8211; completely untutored in rugs, he certainly had an eye.  Thus I was taken rather aback, as people are usually phased when presented with an array of obscure Oriental carpets. Just a tinge worried that this likeable but completely unknown guy wanted to cream off my better items, I suggested we immediately adjourn for a &#8216;fitting session&#8217; to his place, to which he happily agreed. At the back of my mind I wanted some re-assurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of DW &#8211; Betty Mulcahy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Briefly, I was married in 1940 to my schoolgirl sweetheart who was then killed by so-called Friendly Fire on 21st December 1943, leading RAF Squadron 609 escorting American Bombers over Northern France. In 1947 I married an old family friend whose wife had walked out leaving him with three attractive children; a girl of 11 and twin boy and girl of 9. Unable to contemplate children of my own without the right father, I did my best to give them a stable family background whilst pursuing my own rather odd career. Trained for the stage but now unable to give time for an acting career, I won a national verse speaking competition in London and was offered work as a Poetry Speaker. Recitals, festivals, education, judging etc., took me around the country – and spread to the USA and South Africa as the work grew. Ten years with a Jazz Trio! In 1976 my second husband died of a heart attack, and I was forced to sell our house in Shropshire and decided to move to Brighton, where in Sussex Mews I was lucky enough to have as my friendly and helpful neighbour, none other than David Watkin. In 1973 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pigeon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phone rang on Sunday at its usual Watkin time, around 10.00am.  Retreating to the study I arranged myself at the desk for a serious gossip. “Can you come over, dear?” It was ominous.  He didn’t start with “My Dear Chris, How are you?…” Some affair of the heart needing my wise counsel?  An urgent reading from Conrad or Shaw? Unlikely. The tone of voice was too sombre. “What’s happened?” There was a lengthy pause. “There’s a fucking pigeon loose in the Library…” He paused for a very long time. I imagine him now furtively looking round to check. “And it will shit on my books.” Oriole and I jumped into the car with large sheets of brightly painted hardboard and a huge cardboard box. We parked in the Mews and crept slowly to the front door of number six where the ashen-faced owner was cowering, holding the door tightly shut. “So good of you come. Be careful now.” He led us in and, almost immediately, ran upstairs, leaving us alone to spot and corral the beast. I thought at first this was a strategic move on his part to cover a potential exit.  The poor terrified creature had come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David&#8217;s Cherished Belongings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Auction of the Contents of 6 Sussex Mews It came to our attention that the contents of David&#8217;s home were being auctioned at Gorringes Auction House, Lewes, East Sussex on 2nd &#38; 3rd September 2009. The Gorringes website will offer further details. Much of his furniture and many paintings were listed. Apparently some of the smaller items were sold in previous sales&#8230; Having combed through the Lots, we were aware that the following were David&#8217;s: Lot 1148 Lot 1147 Lot 1146 Lot 1089 Lot 981 Lot 982 Lot 985 Lot 943 Lot 960 Lot 2053 Lot 2117 Lot 2118 Lot 2155 Lot 150 Lot 152 Lot 153 Lot 4 Lot 349 Lot 905 Lot 587 Lot 570 Lot 569]]></description>
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		<title>Iain Somers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iain was perhaps David&#8217;s greatest love, and certainly his most significant relationship &#8211; they were together from the 1950&#8242;s until 1974, when Iain died tragically aged 39. This painting was a favourite of their&#8217;s &#8211; they&#8217;d bought it in Italy together, alert to the fact that it held an uncanny likeness to a young Iain. After his death in 1974, the painting was hung on the landing in Sussex Mews, facing David&#8217;s bedroom. He would leave his door open and, propped up on pillows, could gaze across to the &#8216;Portrait of a Boy with a Hoop&#8217;. Iain&#8217;s antiques shop in Kensington Church Street, London. A holiday snap&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Sussex Mews</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Watkin&#8217;s house is now sold, his Library and personal papers dispersed, and stocks of both volumes of autobiography destroyed.]]></description>
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		<title>Letters to Mindaugas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 11:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The letters are, for me, like treasures&#8230;&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Scott and Jozef</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holiday in Positano Glyndebourne August 6th 2006 Scott and Jozef&#8217;s Civil Partnership. The reception was held in the Mews.]]></description>
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		<title>Duncan Lustig-Prean</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1997 was a difficult and stressful year. The “Gays in the military” campaign was in full swing and I was under intense media scrutiny. My neighbour had just called to let me know that, once again, journalists had been looking in my rubbish bins. That morning I also found a live 9mm round on my doorstep, courtesy of Chapter 18 on whose death list I had achieved a significant promotion. With the post came a letter from a member of the public. Supportive, encouraging and warm, the author displayed an understanding of the pressure I was under. I replied in detail thanking the writer and explaining what our plans were for the campaign. A couple of weeks later a package arrived. Inside was a delightful letter in a now familiar green ink which thanked me for an unexpected response and enclosed his book “which you may find a little amusing”.  It was only then that I realised an emotional connection with the verdant correspondent and my last days in the Royal Navy. 1994 had seen us at sea for all but one month in the South Atlantic, the Falklands and Antarctica.  On our last night at sea before entering Portsmouth, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watkin: The Grandfather</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the boys first met David they were really quite little. They&#8217;d been thrilled by the chocolate cake, the painting with the &#8216;changing-faces&#8217;, the piano, the fountain on/off switch, the precariously tall library steps, the phenomenal use of the word &#8216;fuck&#8217; and the even more delicious &#8216;cunt&#8217;. And they told him as much. Then they adopted him as their &#8216;Grandfather figure/substitute&#8217;. As a member of The Family, David delighted in being: The naughtiest and most outrageous helper of children&#8217;s homework; our Sunday Dinner companion; our Saturday tea-time visitor; our Birthday remember-er and most indulgent fan of Luther and Frank&#8217;s apparent talents. He accompanied us on day-trips, took us on jaunts to watch opera, gave the maddest piano-lessons, attempted to teach Classical Music Appreciation, defended any injustice inflicted upon us, telephoned umpteen times a day and shared in our worries and our plans&#8230; The Episode of the &#8216;Temporary&#8217; Blue Dye Snap Shots Frank began skate-boarding at The Level in Brighton when he was about 10 &#8211; it&#8217;s a park near the centre of town which attracts it&#8217;s fair share of drinkers, hosts a fun-fair on Bank Holidays and is surrounded by scrubby bushes&#8230; David thought it would be fun to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glyndebourne</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keen to share his love of opera&#8230; David treated many of his chums to a trip to Glyndebourne&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A Fondness for Green</title>
		<link>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2008/04/the-colour-green/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David had a fondness for using the colour green&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Editors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This website has been initiated as a response to the hundreds of friends of David Watkin from all over the world who wished to contribute to an archive of memories of this remarkable man. The editors are the designer Rachael Adams and the historian Chris Mullen who were in contact with him in Brighton on a weekly, often daily, basis. It is in no way an official family celebration of the man. Copyright of the words and images to be found here is held by the editors from their personal collection, and by contributing friends and colleagues who have answered the appeal.]]></description>
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		<title>The Watkin Path</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David&#8217;s ancestors built The Watkin Path – one of the principal access routes up to the summit of Snowdon. The Watkin Path has the greatest change in altitude out of all the paths up Snowdon. Starting at 60 metres (200 ft) above sea level at the Nantgwynant car park (SH628506) south of Snowdon, and finishing at Snowdon&#8217;s 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) high summit, the Watkin Path has a height gain of 1,025 metres (3,360 ft). It follows the course of the Afon Cwm Llan river and passes the Gladstone Rock which commemorates the opening of the path in 1892 with a speech by William Gladstone, then Prime Minister, on Justice for Wales. The path then heads up the hillside to Cwm Ciliau (between Y Lliwedd and Snowdon) and onward to Snowdon. It is also possible to walk from Nantgwynant to Bwlch Cwm Llan, between Yr Aran and Snowdon and from there, either down to Rhyd Ddu or along Allt Maenderyn, along the top of the Clogwyn Du cliff face to meet the Rhyd Ddu path going to the summit. During the summer, apart from views of the surrounding Welsh countryside, plenty of tourists take to &#8220;cooling down&#8221; in the local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots at Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David loved being at home in Brighton&#8230; His beloved dog, Longuiter &#8211; waiting on the landing. The Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award (Golden Frog) can be seen on the coffee table!]]></description>
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		<title>Eating off blue and white china</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spode Robert&#8217;s &#8216;Morning Kick&#8217; tea. Smoked Salmon, a quarter of lemon and a slice of wholemeal bread &#8211; eaten at the glass topped table or out in the courtyard&#8230; Sweet white dessert wine. Summer Pudding, weighted down by a stone cannon ball. A stack of crumpets beside the fire&#8230; Little Scarlett jam. Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding. Freshly ground coffee, with the cream in the cup first!. Fortnum and Mason&#8217;s Christmas Puddings&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Obituary written by Chris Mullen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Watkin died at the age of 82 in his mews house in Brighton at 10.15pm on the 19th of February, 2008 This must come as a shock to those of you who did not know of the severity of his illness, or were unaware of the speed of his decline in health. Those of us with him during the last days knew with what courage and fighting determination he confronted the inevitability of his cancer. His spirit, wicked humour, and relish for life were with him to the end, undiminished as he lost control of his body. Everything above the neck is wonderful, he would say, everything beneath, a nightmare. The hearing is the last of the senses to be surrendered, and he listened at the last to Mozart piano sonatas and Richard Strauss. Readers of his two printed memoirs will know the rich fabric of his life, the complex paradoxes of a man of complicated responses who always laid claim to the simplest of answers and propositions in dealing with life and the Film Industry. Friends will know how these paradoxes played out in conversations, negotiations, dealings and an infinite number of kindnesses, small and large, thoughtful and [...]]]></description>
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