Rare Photo
Well! Here is a turn-up for the books. This newspaper article has a photo of Irene Mawer. I have never seen this photo before and it is an extremely rare occurrence to see Mawer’s photo ...
Biography
Birmingham Repertory Playgoers’ Society 1937
Birmingham Gazette, 17 September 1937 1937 – it was two years before the start of World War 2 and Irene Mawer was flying high. In this newspaper article, we learn that she visited Birmingham. As ...
Boscastle Summer School
During the Second World War, the Ginner-Mawer School evacuated from London to the tiny village of Boscastle, on the north coast of Cornwall. The school year followed the normal academic year, with the usual ...
Valency Fields, Boscastle
Mystery surrounds the National Trust car park in Boscastle. The car park came to my attention when I was told that the original land – Valency Fields (a green and unspoiled area of grass), had been ...
Colour Theory
Colour Theory Costume design and production were another two areas where Irene Mawer excelled. In her book Rhymes and Plays for The Bobblies (Bobblies being small children) she gives a wonderful description of how she envisaged ...