Month: June 2025

  John Keith Byass (1920-2009), who lived at Bingley for over 50 years, started painting professionally, when, aged 60, he took early retirement from his job as a Transport Manager.  He specialised in painting ships, locomotives and aircraft, which proved popular with collectors. Keith – the name he was better known…

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    The painter, Kenneth (Ken) McBurney (1944 -2006) was born at Tyers Hall, near Barnsley, where his parents, father, also named Kenneth, and mother, Mary, lived at that time. It was a stone house, originally a farm house, divided into three and the family rented the middle property. His…

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