Image ID: 10176

Carved Panel by Robert Kiddey from Wilford Power Station, Bowbridge Road, Newark on Trent, 1992

Courtesy of Tim Warner

Bowbridge Road
Newark on Trent
England

Showing the re-assembling of one of the Wilford Power Station Panel designs (see NTGM015662 to NTGM015665 for the panels in situ) by Newark artist Robert Kiddey. When the former coal-fired Wilford power station, near Nottingham, was decommissioned and demolished in the 1980, the four large carved stone panels which had been positioned high up in the building were removed and returned to Newark. Each panel is in three sections and are seen here being reassembled by a fork-lift truck. Each panel showed a different aspect of electricity production. Showing from left to right: Des Whicker (Newark Town Councillor), Mr George Bennett (friend of Robert Kiddey) and Mike Wilson (Newark Town Clerk). Robert Kiddey was born at Nottingham in 1900. His gift for art made itself apparent at an early age, and at 14 he enrolled at Nottingham School of Art on Waverley Street. Following active service in the First World War as a private in the Notts & Derbys Regiment of Foot, he came to Newark in 1931 as an art teacher at the newly opened Technical College. From that time onwards he made Newark his permanent home and over the years set up his studio in a number of places around the town _ on the wharf, in the market place, and latterly in a former infant school at 5a King Street. It was from these locations in the heart of Newark that he produced an impressive variety of sculptures, carvings and paintings that were destined to grace not only the walls of private homes and public buildings (including Southwell Minster), but also to receive due recognition at the Royal Academy and showings at some of the art world

Date: 18/05/1992

Organisation Reference: NCCE004178

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