Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)

Lowry moved to 117 Station Road, Pendlebury in 1909. This transition was to prove instrumental in consolidating Lowry's vision. 'Pendlebury - one of the most industrial villages in the countryside midway between Manchester and Bolton. At first I detested it. And then, after a few years, I got pretty interested in it and began to walk about. Vaguely in my mind, I suppose, pictures were forming, and then for about thirty-odd years after that I did nothing but industrial pictures ... All my material was on my doorstep' (A. Andrews, The Life of L.S. Lowry, London, 1977, p. 44).