A trip to the Cotswolds in 2013 provided the opportunity to visit some of the places Edwin Smith had documented in the 1950s and 60s.
Of the images I produced, this is perhaps the least successful as my viewpoint was wrong.
No excuses really, except that a long wait for market stallholders to remove their wares from the area I needed to work in and the difficulty of avoiding vehicles made it quite a rushed endeavour in the end.
Interestingly, although superficially the same in appearance, the buildings across the road were rebuilt to replace the originals in 1970. The road is now hard against the collonnade of the Market House.
Olive Cook (Edwin Smith’s widow) wrote of this photograph: “The stout columns, with their narrow necks and exaggerated entiasis, have stood time well, as have the Pennant sandstone bollards and flagged floor.”
Over 50 years on, they are still timeless.
