Ivor Gurney - Gurney Photo Album

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Gurney Photo Album

A Selection: Ivor Gurney’s Later Years

Gurney: 1905 – War-1915 – High Wycombe in 1919– 1920 Stormy & Pensive – 1922 –
Asylum - Reads & Reflects – Twigworth – Grave
Severn River & Valley –Wainlode Hill –A Meadow –A Pond –Gloucester Cathedral
Severn & Cathedral – 1900s Eastgate Street – Eastgate in 1920s – Father’s Shop –His Parents& Siblings
Cheesman–Drummond–Finzi–Harvey–Howells–Scott
Gloucestershire Landmarks on Greeting Cards

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Photo taken by Marion Scott of Ivor Gurney

“One summer when he was laid up in bed for several weeks beneath the east window of a big dormitory ward, I had gone to visit him and he said, ‘There was a beautiful dawn this morning.’

‘But how did you see it?’ I exclaimed.

‘O, I saw it in the mirror on the opposite wall,’
he replied.’”

Marion Scott

during his Asylum Years. [Blevins] INDEX

“ . . . Evil flowed black like a tide
Of darkness over me. ”

From Chance to Work
in The Collected Poems, 269.

Ivor Gurney in Asylum, 1922-1937.INDEX

I went to his funeral,
a sad little affair at Twigworth,
and H.H. played Sleep and Severn Meadows
on a wheezy little organ,
whilst his brother Ronald stood by …
Poor Marion Scott, in tears at the end,
but remarkably brave and calm
considering how much it must have meant to her.

From the account of Gurney’s funeral, as Gerald Finzi described the scene to
Howard Ferguson. [Hurd, Ordeal of Ivor Gurney, 181.]

Parish Church of St. Matthew at Twigworth and the vicarage. [Blevins] INDEX

TO THE DEAR MEMORY
OF
IVOR GURNEY
MUSICIAN AND POET
A LOVER AND MAKER
OF BEAUTY.
1890 - 1937
“BESIDE THE WATERS OF COMFORT.”

Ivor Gurney's grave at Twigworth. [Blevins] INDEX

Thanks to Pamela Blevins and Tony Boden for contributing several of the above photographs. Many of the rest come from Michael Hurd’s Ordeal of Ivor Gurney (Oxford University Press, 1978).

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