Agatha Christie, Torquay, Devon, July 2016
This sculpture of the famous English author was the work of Carol van den Boom-Cairns. It was unveiled in September 1990 to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of her birth in the area on 15 September 1890.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 12 January 2017
Part of Cee’s B&W Challenge
Travel with Intent 
This was so interesting. That is just such an amazing sculpture of her too.
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Marvelous close up photo. Excellent entry Debbie.
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her husband was an amazing archaeologist
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I didn’t know that – more reading required 🙂
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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max. i stayed in their room at mycenae
https://mycenaeanargolid.wordpress.com/mycenae-%CE%BC%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%AE%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%82/#jp-carousel-303
when you think about it so many of her locations have archaeological connections
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Hi there, I just came across this marvellous photo of Dame Agatha. I think it is the best I’ve seen. My name is Carol and I had the honour of making the sculpture in the early 1990’s . Her daughter, Rosalind Hicks unveiled it on 10th September 1990, a few day before the centenary of her birth. Mrs. Hicks wore the pearls depicted on the portrait and made in clay for me by my then ten-year- old daughter. I love the angle and close up nature of your photo. Thank you for making it!
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Hello Carol. So pleased to meet you. And what a lovely comment. I was down in Torquay partly to visit Greenway, and was delighted to find your sculpture. It feels so real. I had been planning to write a more detailed article about her, but somehow real life and work got in the way. Your comment has given the determination to get back to that now. Thank you again!
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Nice to hear from you Debbie. I can’t make out if this is an open blog or not… I’m nearly 79! I’m hoping it is private.
Have you ever thought of having a postcard made of Dame Agatha? I have had two so far; both sold out.
Your photo is a better angle and quality. We could cooperate!
Living in the west of Ireland at the moment; also part of the year in the Netherlands.
I lunched in Greenway a couple of times with Rosalind and her husband and was permitted to search all the archives
for photos to use for sculpting the posthumous portrait. Quite a funny story really. But I won’t bore you
Best wishes
Carol
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A great idea, Carol – my email address is dsmyth@travelwithintent.com – drop me a line there and we can chat privately.
The blog is public, but I haven’t approved the comment for public view. Debbie
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Nor did I!
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As she accompanied her husband on some of his travels, she could gather material for Murder on the Orient Express and … on the Nile. She actually was one of my English teachers. I boroughed her complete works from the library of the British Council and took notes of all the idioms I found. Then I had to order dictionaries of English idioms from England, because there was no Internet, no Wikipedia, no nothing. Learning a foreign language by yourself must be dead easy these days.
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Yes, much easier these days. I like reading foreign fiction on my kindle as I can just tap a word to get a translation. Normally I prefer real books but easy translation wins me over.
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