John Harrison GRA

Railways are the backcloth of John's life. As a boy in the 1930s the LMS was his daily scene - holidays, shopping and family visits. In the 1950s he studied for National Diploma in Design and Art Teacher's Diploma at the Liverpool College of Art.
Sketching involved frequent trips to the bustling docks, the Pier Head with trams and ferries, the Overhead Railway and the all steam Lime Street Station - all now history.
John began teaching within sight of Sutton Oak shed. He was soon running the school railway society and organising visits to the local shed, The Vulcan Foundry with English Electric diesels under construction and to Edge Hill depot where the party were photographed beside No 46220 Coronation with Type 4 diesel-electric symbolically behind.
Latterly he was Head of Art in a large comprehensive school.
Early retirement in 1988 enabled John to concentrate on 'railway' art.
John states, "...my work is unashamedly nostalgic seeking to recapture the men, machines and atmosphere of a departed way of life."