Ballast Quay
  • Home
  • About
  • History
    • Ballast Quay & Anchor Iron Wharf
    • Ballast Quay 20th century
    • The Cutty Sark Tavern
  • Entrepreneurs
    • Sir John Morden
    • Sir Ambrose Crowley
    • William Coles Child
    • William George Bracegirdle
    • The Life & Times of William George Bracegirdle
    • Aukra Kyrkje & the Bracegirdle Bible
    • The Hoskins Family
  • Industry
    • Lovell's Wharf
    • C. A. Robinson & Co.
    • Enderby Wharf >
      • Relics of a Glorious History
      • The Eponymous Enderbys
      • Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  • Oral Histories
    • Hilary Peters
    • Fred Mason
    • Barbara Southard
    • Kenny Tabor
    • Mareka Carter
    • Joe Hambrook
    • Ray Thompson
    • Sean McCauley
    • Terry Scales
  • Open Garden
    • Garden History
    • Garden in Bloom
  • Gallery
    • Movies
    • Murder Mystery Novel
  • News
    • Morris Dancers on Anchor Iron Wharf
    • Greenwich Tall Ships Festival
  • Contact Us

TERRY SCALES

Click on the arrow below to hear Terry's audio track
Recorded with the assistance of Julian May ​
00.00 Growing up in Rotherhithe in a docker's family   02.45 Evacuation and at age 13 goes to Camberwell art school   07.40 Call up and national service   08.58 Demob and first job   
10.35 urged by his father he becomes a docker   14.00 Exhibition and invitation to teach at Camberwell  17.40 Retirement from teaching and retrospective show at the Guildhall   
18.20 Terry's method of working   19.35 Focus of interest shifts from Greenwich upriver   
24.52 Painting at Ballast Quay and Anchor Iron Wharf  
29.12 Enderby's Wharf and cableship John Mackay   32.47 Painting the Thames from Victoria Deep Water Terminal   34.21 Character of the Thames bridges
   

Terry Scales' Oral History by M&P on Mixcloud

Terry Scales is an artist who paints the river, Kentish landscapes and still life subjects.  He lives in Greenwich, but was born into a family of dock workers in Rotherhithe.  He left school at 13 to go to Camberwell School of Art to study fine art and having completed his studies, he 
got a poorly paid job as a background artist in a studio specialising in film posters.  He was persuaded by his father to join him in the docks, where he worked for 5 years, before taking up the offer of a teaching post at Camberwell, where he remained for 30 years.  During this time he painted and exhibited his work with great success, as he does to this day at the age of 83.  His unique perspective on river life and work has given us a wonderful record of the river as it was before the developers took over the waterfront in the post-industrial era.
His paintings are a powerful testimony to an industrial era that has now gone for ever under the glass and concrete of the new residential developments.  
Click on the images to enlarge
Picture
Thames panorama from the Victoria Deep Water Terminal
Picture
The Last Ship from Anchor Iron Wharf 
Picture
Barges loading steel for Canary Wharf from Lovell's Wharf
Picture
Barges off Enderby Wharf with the cable ship John Mackay
Picture
Greenwich Peninsula from Ballast Quay
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.