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| Name: | Irene Fawkes |
| Sex: | Female |
| Father: | Frank Attfield Fawkes (1849-1941) |
| Mother: | Sarah Smith Hartridge (1849-1930) |
| Birth | 27 Feb 1886 | Chelmsford, Essex |
| Birth fact | 1886 (age 0) | 1886 Jun Qtr, Chelmsford, 4a/408 |
| Census | 1911 (age 24-25) | Art teacher, 34 Hamlet Road, Chelmsford (unmarried) |
| Residence | 18 Feb 1941 (age 54) | 9 Rosebery Road, Felixstowe (in attendance at death of father) |
| Residence | 29 Dec 1962 (age 76) | 20 Berners Road, Felixstowe (on death cert. of Attfield Fawkes) |
| Residence | 1977 (age 90-91) | Artist (retired), 20 Berners Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk |
| Death fact | 1977 (age 90-91) | 1977 Sep Qtr, Ipswich, 10/2285 |
| Death | 13 Aug 1977 (age 91) | Osbourne House Nursing Home, 17/19 Montague Road, Felixstowe |
Irene was born in 1886 in Chelmsford, where she attended Chelmsford School of Art. She was awarded the Silver Medal by the City and Guilds of London Institution. In the 1920s and 1930s, she worked as a commercial designer and illustrator, and between 1923 and 1935 produced 22 posters and 13 panel posters for London Transport. She also taught drawing and design at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute, Jewry Street, London (now incorporated in London Metropolitan University) between 1927 and 1935.
Three posters by Irene Fawkes were reproduced in "By Underground to Kew: London Transport posters: 1908 to the present" by Jonathan Riddell and William T. Stearn (1994)
I am endebted to Dr E. Charles Nelson for the above information. An illustrated article by Dr Nelson has been published in the 2006 Yearbook of The Heather Society: E. C. Nelson, 2006 Miss Irene Fawkes' Heather: the "cover story". Heathers 3: ii, 19-21 (2006).
For more details see http://www.heathersociety.org.uk/yearbook.html
and http://www.decoware.co.uk/irene-fawkes.html
FAWKES Irene of 20 Berners Rd Felixstowe Suffolk died 13 August 1977. Probate Ipswich 13 September £779.