Wally Cooper, Retired Draughtsman

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Wally Cooper still has in his possession two letters from a firm of steelworks’ consulting and contracting engineers in Kingsway, London. The first, dated March 1937, confirms that he would commence work in their drawing office on the 30th March at a salary of 25 shillings per week. The second, dated May 1979, informs him that the company will cease operations on the 30th September that year, and that therefore his employment would be terminated. Born in Wimbledon in 1920, he spent most of the 42 years between the dates those letters were written commuting between Surrey and the office in Kingsway, working mainly on the design, construction and commissioning of furnaces for steelworks’ rolling mills. Frequent visits to steelworks throughout the UK and occasionally to Europe and India, were also part of the job.

Girton College, University of Cambridge

Cambridge

Title

Wally Cooper, Retired Draughtsman

Date

1991

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 150 x W 88 cm

Accession number

464

Acquisition method

on loan from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

signature and date

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