To editor
I just wanted to say that your idea to have some of the photographs from your competition as possible postcards with the ones that you are already doing is a really good idea.
G.
Editor comment: Thanks: We can see at least 2 or three photographs already that might fit the bill as “Wish You Were Here” type styles of Pevensey Bay, so you never know. May well happen if the photographers would also like to see their images as some of “10 views of Pevensey Bay series” we are developing.
We are also working on the first greeting card in the “Wish You Were Here” series, a set of 10 greetings cards, that can also be utilsed as notelets. An image from one of our very best indigenous artists, that has been purchased by a private collector, is being loaned for the purpose of working with the greetings cards the printing is being down in London by a specialist company.
Titled: At the Turning of the Bay, by artist Jan Barron, the greetings card is an illustration of what people see as they turn the corner back into the Bay as a seasonal visitor or resident, knowing they are home.
On the greetings card is featured the corner of the Bay Hotel, representative of the quirky spirit of Pevensey Bay. The turning of the corner scene, coincidentally, is also the scene that we see in the home movie sequence shot by the famous actor, Peter Sellers in 1957 and shown as part of the BBC2 Arena programme about Peters Sellers shown in 2010.
The story would be complete if we could have found that Peter Sellers ever stayed in the Bay Hotel. He was here through much of the fifties in the summers, at the time he was recording ‘the Goon Show’.
Close, we have discovered with the help of Lynda Leventon, whose parents, Stan and Muriel Love were the landlords of the Bay Hotel from 156-1971 that the parents of Peter Sellers stayed at the Bay Hotel in 1959. Their signatures are in the guest book of the Bay Hotel for that year.
A version that is an exclusive notelet of the illustration, At the Turning of the Bay, is also in preparation.
The cards are printed by Moo Cards in London, 30-350 gsm paper weight, premium paper.
Image credit: Notelet At the Turning of the Bay, by artist Jan Barron
about moo cards
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