199 years ago today at , Sir John Soane purchased Hogarth’s four-part series ‘The Humours of an Election’, a satirical send-up of eighteenth century politics. 🗳️🎨

No word on whether such raucous scenes can be spotted today in Wakefield or Tiverton and Honiton… 😉

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Due to the ongoing populatity of Mr Benn, David McKee set up King Rollo Films with Clive Juster. The company is based in Honiton for the reason Clive lived near there and didn't want to move!!

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King Rollo Films Ltd was set up in Honiton in Devon by David McKee & Clive Juster.
They met at the BBC in the childrens department where David was making Mr Benn.
Their friendship blossomed and a few years later, King Rollo was born.

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'An by ‘A H’, illus. by Adelaide Claxton in London Society Vol.5 1864. A recently bereaved & brazen Mrs Honiton, strides out, turns heads and 'worse than all, she wore so natty and retiring a widow's cap, that you could scarcely detect that emblem of her bereavement'.

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I have 3 drawings & 1 print Winter Show, on now in Honiton. Super exhibition of work by my fellow academicians.

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Sketches from the Honiton show! Also, I have instagram now! https://t.co/AuhHPypoPT

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Need fish tomorrow? Order it today! 01404 548867

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These Honiton lace cuffs are receiving a lot of interest in the gallery right now...

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