Eccentric Artist
I remember cycling to Matching Green from Harlow in the early Seventies, as a 16 year old, exploring with friends one summer evening and coming across a cottage garden filled with strange but delightful 'art works' made out of domestic ironmongery. There were lots of metal people and devils, all brightly painted standing amid the overgrown garden among the flowers. It was very magical. Someone told us they were made by the eccentric man who lived in the attached cottage which stood on the corner of the Green with the lane leading to Harlow. Everything was grubbed up and vanished in the late Seventies. Can anyone tell me more about this story, is there someone still living who has the whole tale?
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I used to ride by that garden on my tricycle and later my bike!! I lived at Matching Green until I was 8 (1978). My Grandparents and parents told me it belonged to a man named "Horry Saville" (not sure of spelling) who used to ride around the village very slowly on a decrepit old big. All I remember him as is an old man in a raincoat who didn't wash much!!! As far as I know it was still there when we moved in '78, I was totally fascinated by those wierd people, I think some of them were celebrities, the Queen, Prince Charles etc.
Comment from Hilda Rogers on Wednesday, 3rd November 2010.