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Rick Scollins: Artist, Writer, Friend, and now permanent landmark.
October 8, 2009 12:00 AM
Guest author Peter Dennis finds a note in the Nottingham Post about an old friend and fellow Osprey artist.
Rick Scollins was an excellent military illustrator with several Ospreys to his credit, and my friend. He died of a congenital heart condition in 1992 shockingly curtailing a very promising career. He was also a wag and a dialect performer and expert - his own broad Ilkeston anyway. He wrote a series of books of funny examples which is still in print.
Ilkeston is going to name a street after the lad; 'Scollins Court' is currently under construction. He would have been chuffed to bits.
I went to his house once with Oxford-educated and rather plummy Paddy Griffith. We got lost and Paddy got out to ask a flat capped pedestrian for directions. When he got back in the car he said 'That chap called me 'Duck' - twice .'
Rick's book series is called 'Ey up mi Duck'.
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A classic book - my wife being a soft southerner was baffled by the dialect up here in Nottinghamshire and read the book by way of trying to understand what her friends were saying.
Suffice to say it confused her even more!
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