Another Henry Grossman pic from George 1967 birthday

 

This picture was lifted from Sara Schmidt marvellous website Meet the Beatles for real

2018 news

Hi, Not much news about the site, recently.

A not so nice surprise came from the Helena the Beatles Photo youtube chanel that used my comments about George Harrison 24th birthday party without my consent. Not ethical procedure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfsbEoD0A84
On the bright site, this video shows some upgrades (less cropped, un-marked) of this event. I have upgraded my site with some minor corrections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfsbEoD0A84

Upgrade (composite) which now includes Roger McGuinn of the Byrds on the top left corner, and in the window's reflection are signs of the small recording studio.

Previous Photograh

2017 News from week 49

1.Work has begun on the garage. I have seen many shapes, or project of this garage, but I will stick to the 1969 model, the one seen on the John Haynes photosession, also present the day of the drug raid by the infamous Norman Pilcher. Of course lot to do on the side and on the roof.

2. I should get soon a good aerial view of Kinfauns shot in late 1965 by a german journalist. More to come soon.

3. I found another pic from George Harrison 24th birthday

4- Another Robert Whitaker pciture of George Painting here : 

2017 News from week 48

News from week 48

1. Found additional photographs from the 69 sessions by John Haynes. Among other,
- I know have a more precise idea of the green house,
- I found the first glimpse of the goldfish pond that lays between the pool and the greenhouse
- They provided me some more ideas how to model the garage which I beleive looks nothing like the floorplan that was drawn in 1965. Maybe this was just a test, who knows.

2. Found one more picture of the 24th birthday party in Kinfaus. "Behind the locked door" book informed me of the presence of Roger McGuinn. Well, he's in this picture. Also on the picture are Ali Akbar Khan on sarod, Mahapurush Misra on tabla  and Amiya Dasgupta on sitar. Anyone with Henry Grossman book "Places I remember" tells me if I miss some, please ?

3. Also this week begun modelling the diving board (see previous entry)

4. At least I placed this evening the famous fireplace from The Fool, into the living room. Btw, I got a nice mail from Marijke Kooger whith some background about the Fool involvment  on Kinfauns paintings. More to come next week.

Diving board

This pool needed its diving board, right ? Well, here it is !

2017 - News from Week 47

What a week !

• I have received of huge amounts of answers from Mrs. Mason who, as some of you know, purchased Kinfauns from George harrison, no less ! She informed me that the old garage, appended to the house in the mid sixties, included the round windows living room of course, but also a very small recording studio. That might me the place the Beatles recorded, mixed, overdubbed the so called "Kinfauns demos", in spring 1967. Mrs. Mason reveals that apart from the round glasses from the living room, the only thing remaining in the actual building are the round windows, the old garage, and the wooden gate that blocked continuous Beatles fans from stealing gravels as relics. More to come, for sure !
• I also received a very kind mail from Mrs Benjamin Whitaker, son of the late Robert Whitaker who provided me stills from a very special photosession. Yes, the one with George Harrison painting his house ! That helped me so much understanding the topgraphy of the house. I previously work on very LQ photographs, so those were hugely helpful.
• Inspecting the fisheye photo of Brian and Anita (or Suki Potier ?) visiting Kinfauns, it appears that the greenhouse is alredy there. But, is this Anita of Suki ? Most probably Suki ? When did she dated Brian Jones, I got to find out to put out a date on this picture.

Paper Kinfauns

I've just come to discover the project of Dirk Stevesyns who rebuilt Kinfauns but in a cardboard version.

Check this out !
https://plus.google.com/107252152740964991706/posts/d2EZJsAzPzs