as painting and art history in the 1950s at the New Whittington Secondary School, Derbyshire. Any art work he did, he did for himself and he didn't show the end-product to many people, except for some of his sketching friends. He never exhibited anywhere, nor was he a member of any club or other artists' association, even though these flourished in the 1950s. A peculiar and possibly telling technical detail of his own work is that he hardly ever used fresh canvases or prepared boards. It is unknown the exact date when Stanley started to draw and paint but he almost certainly went to Mary Swanwick Secondary School only 200 yards away in Old Whittington. At a very crucial age, he gained confidence in his own natural talent and abilities and as with so many people at that time, his war experience considerably expanded Stanley's horizons. More than 50 very fluent pen and watercolour drawings survive from 1948 to 1949, the majority of them of churches, houses and landscapes around Derbyshire and also in Norfolk. These drawings represent the only dated and inscribed work that he ever produced, as he never signed anything. Within the portfolio bought by Robert Young Antiques at an auction at Beccles in Suffolk 2007, there are many sheets of drawings, figure studies, and student exercises that were obviously completed while Stanley was at Art School. It also contained a selection of his pupil's art works that he taught at The New Whittington Secondary School and the surviving record of Stanley's enrolment at the school lists his occupation as 'Teacher'. Retirement After teaching in Derbyshire for sixteen years, he moved to Coldham Hall, close to Beccles in Norfolk in 1966. He took a job as 'Arts and crafts' master at Bowthorpe Secondary School on the outskirts of Norwich and Mary Dyson also continued to teach, at Bishop Sandcroft's school in Harleston. Stanley stopped painting after this time and he packed up his own work, approx 400 oils and watercolours, along with what he wanted to keep of the art of his pupils and stored everything, some in his own hand-made sketch books in Coldham Hall's large attic. Once they had settled in Norfolk, he directed most of his energy towards his family and the restoration of their house but Stanley continued to be passionate about art history. They would often go on trips to London museums