New illustration for TFTHO Book 1, this one introduces the city of Tarmingham itself during a snowstorm in the winter of 1970. The overhead railway can just be made out among the buildings in the background, along with the station of Margaret Hall, and the two bridges that carry the overhead over the Tarm and Gapney Rivers to the cities south and north sides with the latter going via Tar Island.
The inspiration I had for Tarmingham came from cities like Birmingham, Norwich, Southampton, Liverpool, Rotterdam, Hamburg, New York and Detroit with me choosing to locate the city on the coast of East Anglia in it's own metropolitan county between the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk with some areas of those two being served by the Overhead Railway, and being built on former marshland on the banks of two rivers with it's waterfront and harbour being shelter in a large bay leading out into the North Sea. I'm planning to write a full history and biography of the city at some point, that will give a lot more information about the city and it's history.
Art © Great Eastern J69