Beyond Prince Street…
This shouldn’t have happened. However through a conversation with my good friend Chris , reflecting on the success of Defiance, a photo in an old magazine he had shared with me and a few other coincidences and the concept of modelling a tiny slice of his beloved Charlottetown felt inevitable… Beyond the shops in Charlottetown, across Prince Street were I’m told a myriad of lines to industrial concerns littered along the water front. Chris remembers these at the end of the railway - yet even then a number customers still received carload service. The photo is centre right above - I’m sure many of you will have the same thoughts about how modellable, how intimate this scene feels. It reminded me of other photos I had seen of the place… Then through our conversation I find there is a business called Clarke’s, in the photo is number 35; the example I modelled in HO… coincidences, but overlaps and the energy of that conversation carried me high for a week at least, to the purchase o...
