Mar 31, 2015
Hippo and the Family Lean
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I’d like to share an anecdote from my travels — the time I met Hippo Hipsey, the Burnham-on-Crouch lifeboat mechanic.
Before I visited the station, Hippo wrote to ask if I’d make his portrait. It turned out that he had very specific reasons, not least to record the ‘family lean’.
Hippo explained to me further:
“The ‘lean’ business is just that my grandfather, George Letchford, was such a…
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