Jack Cooper was a handyman/jobbing builder in mid twentieth century Spalding. He has been described to me as the sort of bloke who if you needed a new chimney pot would get on his bike with a chimney pot hooked on one arm and a bucket of cement on his handle bars and would do the job. In 1962 he was employed by the Council to point the walls of Ayscoughfee Gardens and as he did the job he rendered in patterns of birds, shells, hobby horses and boats that he duly painted. When asked why he did it he said it was “something for the young folk who play there.”
Many of these survive to this day, even though the modern day conservation officer would not today allow such artistry upon ancient walls.
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