The hands of Dom Conlon

The Minx has been feeling a creative urge and decided that she'd like to do some work with Dom, so this evening we all met up at the Sir Henry Tate in Chorley, which, on the one hand, is owned by Tim Martin, the risk-blind, gang-ho Brexiteer, but, on the other, has an app so that you can order food and drinks without leaving your table. Nothing's ever black and white, is it?

Chorley's most celebrated son was born in 1819, probably at Terrace Mount, which was pulled down not long after to make way for a new road. The Tates to the minister's house of Park Street Chapel. Henry's father, William, served 37 years as minister and was buried in the chapel's graveyard.


When William died, in 1836, Henry was a grocer's apprentice. Three years later, he acquired his first shop, in Liverpool, but subsequently turned to sugar refining, and made a fortune. Sir Henry Tate died in 1899, leaving money for many different causes. 


Chorley library received a gift of £500 and, more famously, Sir Henry presented his collection of 65 paintings and two sculptures to the nation. He also funded the building of the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain), on London's Millbank, to house them.

Happily, we were joined for a while by my daughter, Hannah, who had been visiting a client in Chorley, but after she went and while the Minx and Dom hatched their creative plans I sat and made some plans of my own for the Surprise Cinema Club.

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Reading 'On Booze'.