BILL SORRELL
1985Black and white photo of a man slouching and leaning on a large box. On top of the box is another box, with Bill written on the dividing slats. The man is wearing a miner's hard hat with a cloth forming a shade over neck, and wearing long sleeved top with bib and brace overalls. He is holding a newspaper in his left hand. The large box has Bill's poem written in white paint: Stones of the sea. Garden shrubs in the background.
On back of photo: "Bill Sorrell 1985".
Bill Sorrell was known for writing poetry and placing poetic eulogies in newspapers at his own expense for people he knew who had died. (Doris Martin 2014)
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