{"id":44,"date":"2012-04-18T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T11:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/?p=44"},"modified":"2015-04-30T18:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:57:33","slug":"hampshire-house-bakery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/hampshire-house-bakery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire House Bakery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A wide-ranging bout of family illness has enforced a bit of a break from the blog, so I&#8217;ll ease myself back into it with some ephemera.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gill_Hog_and_Wheatsheaf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45 size-full\" title=\"Eric Gill, Hog and wheatsheaf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gill_Hog_and_Wheatsheaf.jpg\" alt=\"Hampshire House Bakery\" width=\"465\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gill_Hog_and_Wheatsheaf.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gill_Hog_and_Wheatsheaf-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gill_Hog_and_Wheatsheaf-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Gill_Hog_and_Wheatsheaf-158x158.jpg 158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis beautiful wood-engraving was made by the English artist and typographer Eric Gill (1882-1940). It was made in 1915 and was originally a piece of advertising art, intended for the paper bags used by the Hampshire House Bakery in Hammersmith, London.<\/p>\n<p>Gill also designed a famous typeface, the eponymous Gill Sans, which is still widely used, and carved the stone figures of Prospero and Ariel (from Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>The Tempest<\/em>) on the facade of BBC Broadcasting House in central London.<\/p>\n<p>Gill was an eccentric figure in his own lifetime, and details of his private life that emerged after his death have since made him a controversial one also. If you&#8217;re curious, you can do no better than get hold of a copy of Fiona MacCarthy&#8217;s excellent biography, <em>Eric Gill<\/em>. It&#8217;s currently out of print, but there is a Kindle edition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-44\" data-postid=\"44\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-44 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\n\t<\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wide-ranging bout of family illness has enforced a bit of a break from the blog, so I&#8217;ll ease myself back into it with some ephemera. This beautiful wood-engraving was made by the English artist and typographer Eric Gill (1882-1940). It was made in 1915 and was originally a piece of advertising art, intended for<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/hampshire-house-bakery\/\"> read more&#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}