The tall Dutch builders (seemingly the only ones on site) informed me they were there to do a ‘little job’…putting the concrete slabs in place.(the supports and walls of the whole new building!) A quietly active site to draw in the morning. In the afternoon this week, Beryl in the Coventry Archives kept me supplied with blueprints of the original build and programmes for the opening. Details of workers in Coventry in 1936-37 and more about Alfred Herbert fed my intrigue and will provide great images for the installation. Elements are slowly coming together. Its frustrating that there is not enough time to explore the avenues that are opening up. The Polish links, Herbert’s links with industrial paternalism and social clubs and the connections with the workers on site.
