{"id":3621,"date":"2025-06-18T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:01:05","slug":"june-18th-the-great-broadway-paint-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/june-18th-the-great-broadway-paint-off\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Broadway Paint off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"2268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2025-06-15-11.50.02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7555\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Great Broadway Paint Off.  Photo K Flude 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the joys of my Summer is revisiting places I know and love in my role as a Course Director for Road Scholar. I first came across the &#8216;en plein air&#8217;  in 2023. On Sunday, June 18th. I was in Broadway, once considered the most beautiful village in Britain. It was also the model for Riseholme in the wonderful Lucia books by E. F. Benson (made into a TV series by the BBC starring Prunella Scales, Geraldine McEwan and Nigel Hawthorne).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_30-1024x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3622\" style=\"width:377px;height:260px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_30-1024x707.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_30-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_30-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_30-1536x1061.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_30-2048x1414.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The day I visited, in 2025, was last Sunday, June 15th. I have added new photos and revised the texts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How it Works<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The artists register in the morning and have their paper or canvas stamped, or given a block of Maltese stone. This proves that they have done all the work on the day itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This year  there were no sculptors.\u00a0 Instead, there were live models in the marquee being painted by portrait painters.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-18-12.46.07-1024x717.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-18-12.46.07-1024x717.png 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-18-12.46.07-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-18-12.46.07-768x538.png 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-18-12.46.07.png 1289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Broadway Paint off, Local Portraits. 2025 Photo K Flude<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They take  their blank canvases to create a work of art in the village. At 4pm or so, they are judged. At 5pm, the art works are exhibited and are on sale in the Marquee on the village green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2025-06-15-11.51.54.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7552\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Broadway Arts Festival 2025, Photo K Flude<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s always a delight walking around Broadway.  Bun, but with an artist and easel every 50 yards or so even more enjoyable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Most Beautiful Village?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The appellation of most beautiful village, came in the late 19th Century. Broadway, once gained its wealth by selling wool. When that declined, the village became an important stop on the Toll Roads.   It was on the stage coach route from Aberystwyth to Worcester, Oxford, and London. Fish Hill, nearly 1000 feet high, was an obstacle and coaches made a stop here to prepare or recover. Some coaches used up to 10 horses to get to the top. But with the arrival of Brunel&#8217;s Great Western Railway to the Cotswolds the village was nearly ruined. Half the village, the Broadway Museum says, moved away as their livelihood serving the coaching trade died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"803\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_02-803x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Artist painting in the Broadway 'Great Paint off'\" class=\"wp-image-3623\" style=\"width:491px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_02-803x1024.jpg 803w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_02-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_02-768x979.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_02-1204x1536.jpg 1204w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_02.jpg 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Artist painting in the &#8216;Great Broadway Paint off&#8217; 2023 Photo K Flude<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_25-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Artist painting in the Broadway 'Great Paint off'\" class=\"wp-image-3624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_25-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_25-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_25-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_25-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_25-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Another artist participating Artist in the &#8216;Great Broadway Paint off&#8217; Photo K Flude 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_31-1024x747.jpg\" alt=\"Painting in Broadway\" class=\"wp-image-3632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_31-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_31-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_31-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_31-1536x1120.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_31-2048x1494.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">@dawnjordanart Great Broadway Paint off&#8217; Photo K Flude 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But artists and writers, led by Americans Frances Millet and Edwin Abbey, turned Broadway into a much sort-after country retreat. Visitors included Oscar Wilde, J. M. Barrie, Singer-Sargeant, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Gabriel Dante Rossetti, American actress, Mary Anderson, Edward Elgar, E. F, Benson. Mark Twain visited for Millet&#8217;s marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_50-620x1024.jpg\" alt=\"J.M. Barrie being bowled by Mary de Navarro. (aka Mary Anderson, who played many roles including Juliette at Stratford-on-Avon)\" class=\"wp-image-3630\" style=\"width:447px;height:739px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_50-620x1024.jpg 620w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_50-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_50-768x1269.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_50-930x1536.jpg 930w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_50-1239x2048.jpg 1239w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_50-scaled.jpg 1549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">J.M. Barrie being bowled by Mary de Navarro. (aka Mary Anderson, who played many roles including Juliette at Stratford-on-Avon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Gordon Russell &amp; Henry T Ford<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What made the visit particularly interesting was the story told by the volunteer at the Gordon Russell Museum in Broadway.  This is the story as I understood it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russells restored the Lygon Arms in Broadway using Arts And Crafts architects. They also restored antique furniture. The son, Gordon Russell, became a leading designer of modernist Furniture. He advertised to passengers on the Cunard Line in order to attract the attention of rich American visitors. One, Henry T Ford, was interested. He came to Broadway, staying at the Lygon arms.  He was taken to nearby village Snowshill, where Ford bought a Cotswolds Farmhouse, complete with Blacksmith&#8217;s workshop. They were shipped stone by numbered stone to Brentford on the Thames. Then to the London Docks and across the Atlantic. Here. Ford set them up in a Museum in Michigan where they still are!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_27-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Sculptors at the Great Broadway Paint off.\" class=\"wp-image-3625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_27-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_27-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_27-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_27-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_27-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sculptors at the Great Broadway Paint off (2023)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Research suggests it&#8217;s a little more complicated, in so far as Ford purchased his first Cottage before coming to Broadway.  But it still leaves a delightful story about American ideas of Quintessential English village life.   For pictures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/henry-fords-love-of-the-cotswolds\/\">see my post here.<\/a>  And for another look at the story look at this web site  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehenryford.org\/explore\/blog\/cotswold-cottage-from-english-village-to-greenfield-village\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, Frances Millet planned to return to the States on the Titanic. He was one of the 1500 who drowned.  A letter he wrote while on the ship was posted, probably in France. It is on display in the Broadway Museum (2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_47-1024x866.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_47-1024x866.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_47-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_47-768x650.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_47-1536x1299.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/broadway-jun-23_47-2048x1733.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For more about Broadway, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/gordon-russell-the-mosquito-and-broadway-november-14th\/\">Gordon Russell and Word War 2 see my post here: <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 18th is also:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;sca_esv=89a14cf8da278dde&amp;sxsrf=AE3TifPcABnVro2rU2GkTyVN-zCf08l54w:1750240728462&amp;q=International+Sushi+Day&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3iM81KqvMUQKzzYvNi00stPic83Nz8_OCM1NSyxMrixexinvmlaQW5SWWZObnJeYoBJcWZ2QquCRWAgCJ39BhRAAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjGxJDn2vqNAxUfT0EAHf0cKYoQxA16BAgwEAU\">International Sushi Day<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;sca_esv=89a14cf8da278dde&amp;sxsrf=AE3TifPcABnVro2rU2GkTyVN-zCf08l54w:1750240728462&amp;q=Autistic+Pride+Day&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3iM81KqvMUeIEsU3NK4wLtPic83Nz8_OCM1NSyxMrixexCjmWlmQWl2QmKwQUAQUVXBIrAbK9Aig-AAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjGxJDn2vqNAxUfT0EAHf0cKYoQxA16BAgwEAg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;sca_esv=89a14cf8da278dde&amp;sxsrf=AE3TifPcABnVro2rU2GkTyVN-zCf08l54w:1750240728462&amp;q=Autistic+Pride+Day&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3iM81KqvMUeIEsU3NK4wLtPic83Nz8_OCM1NSyxMrixexCjmWlmQWl2QmKwQUAQUVXBIrAbK9Aig-AAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjGxJDn2vqNAxUfT0EAHf0cKYoQxA16BAgwEAg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;sca_esv=89a14cf8da278dde&amp;sxsrf=AE3TifPcABnVro2rU2GkTyVN-zCf08l54w:1750240728462&amp;q=Autistic+Pride+Day&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3iM81KqvMUeIEsU3NK4wLtPic83Nz8_OCM1NSyxMrixexCjmWlmQWl2QmKwQUAQUVXBIrAbK9Aig-AAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjGxJDn2vqNAxUfT0EAHf0cKYoQxA16BAgwEAg\">Autistic Pride Day<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;sca_esv=89a14cf8da278dde&amp;sxsrf=AE3TifPcABnVro2rU2GkTyVN-zCf08l54w:1750240728462&amp;q=National+Chocolate+Ice+Cream+Day&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3iM81KqvMUYKwcyoLsqu0-Jzzc3Pz84IzU1LLEyuLF7Eq-CWWZObnJeYoOGfkJ-fnJJakKngmpyo4F6Um5iq4JFYCACg5HkNNAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjGxJDn2vqNAxUfT0EAHf0cKYoQxA16BAgwEAs\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;sca_esv=89a14cf8da278dde&amp;sxsrf=AE3TifPcABnVro2rU2GkTyVN-zCf08l54w:1750240728462&amp;q=National+Chocolate+Ice+Cream+Day&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3iM81KqvMUYKwcyoLsqu0-Jzzc3Pz84IzU1LLEyuLF7Eq-CWWZObnJeYoOGfkJ-fnJJakKngmpyo4F6Um5iq4JFYCACg5HkNNAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjGxJDn2vqNAxUfT0EAHf0cKYoQxA16BAgwEAs\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;sca_esv=89a14cf8da278dde&amp;sxsrf=AE3TifPcABnVro2rU2GkTyVN-zCf08l54w:1750240728462&amp;q=National+Chocolate+Ice+Cream+Day&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3iM81KqvMUYKwcyoLsqu0-Jzzc3Pz84IzU1LLEyuLF7Eq-CWWZObnJeYoOGfkJ-fnJJakKngmpyo4F6Um5iq4JFYCACg5HkNNAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjGxJDn2vqNAxUfT0EAHf0cKYoQxA16BAgwEAs\">National Chocolate Ice Cream Day<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Published in June 18th 2023, Republished in June 2024, and revised in 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of my Summer is revisiting places I know and love in my role as a Course Director for Road Scholar. I first came across the &#8216;en plein air&#8217; in 2023. On Sunday, June 18th. I was in Broadway, once considered the most beautiful village in Britain. 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