Farmer Ferris Jones Family

The paintings below are still in our family. The cottage at Car Colston, then known as White Gates,  featured in several paintings by Walter Farmer, who lived there with his wife Marie and their children John and (Florence) Olga, who painted too, and attended the Slade School of Art. Both Walter and Olga were members of the Nottingham Society of Artists and exhibited their paintings in local and national exhibitions. The green, Car Colston, Notts by Walter Farmer (signed, 1923(?)) "Blue Room" Interior of White Gates at Car Colston by Walter Farmer Cottage interior, watercolour by Walter Farmer Interior by Walter Farmer (signed, 1919) (probably The Old Hall, East Bridgford, Notts) Interior 1927 Walter Farmer (probably The Old Hall, East Bridgford, Notts) Grandma Bonzon by Walter Farmer (unsigned) "Through a window" View from Whitegates, Car Colston by Walter Farmer 1922 "Donated to the Parishioners of Car Col

HALF AN ORANGE WITH WILLIE These are the memoirs of our grandmother Joan Ferris Jones (née Farmer), made at the request of my father Anthony. The original document is typewritten (granny was a school secretary and we had a huge old typewriter) and dated August 1989, when she was in her eighties. I have not corrected her terminology (sometimes delightfully of her time and very "granny"), and occasional typos. Joan and her mother Helen (Nellie) lived with us, and some of these memories seem to be hers. When we were little, Joan was known as "other granny" to differentiate her from my mother's mother, London granny, and Nellie was "old granny". 1. In the beginning The first thing I remember is being taken into the cellar to be put into my pram. I was a little afraid of the dark steps and always surprised when the garden door opened and the daylight came in. The house was built on a steep slope so the cellar opened into the garden - really mor