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GEORGE ORWELL AND HUMPHREY JENNINGS?: Young patriots with spare time

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030518
Author:Mary-Lou Legg

This photograph of two boys was taken in Walberswick, Suffolk in about 1919. The boy on the left is my father, Humphrey Jennings, the future documentary film director. But who is the boy on the right? Could it be George Orwell, then Eric Blair. There is reason to think that it might be.

My father was born in Walberswick in 1907. His mother, Mildred, ran a shop there called the Walberswick Peasant Pottery Co. This sold pottery imported from France and eastern Europe and furniture painted by herself and others. One of her assistants was Ruth Pitter, the poet. Ruth Pitter had met the Blair ...

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