Image ID: 10177

Carved Panel by Robert Kiddey: 'The Tester', Sandstone, Bowbridge Road, Newark on Trent, 1957

Courtesy of Tim Warner

Bowbridge Road
Newark on Trent
England

This is one of four panels depicting different aspects of electricity production which were originally located at Wilford Power Station near Nottingham. When the power station was de-commissioned and demolished i the 1980s Kiddey's carved panels were returned to Newark. For pictures of the panels in their original position see NTGM015662, 663, 664, and 665. 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

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