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First published digitally Summer 20092nd Edition minor corrections 15.08.20093rd Edition Revised plus new material. 02.11.2009

All content and images copyright © Bryn Jones 2009.All black & white people photographs by Juliet Highet. Bryn’s Portrait photo on the Back Cover by Klaus Helbig www.KlausHelbig.deAll rights reserved.

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Notes, Reflections, Pictures fromPast and PresentBy Bryn Jones

It all started with ‘work’, not only with work but with a particular kind of work - sorting things out. That would not have been so bad but it also had to do with ‘sorting things’, which is close enough to that famous German pastime called “Ordnung” to give me the willies. Anyway, there I was, confronted with this massive pile of papers that had to be sorted out into 3 piles. One for Bulgaria, one for Germany and the other to be thrown out, sold or got rid of in some other way. Then all of a sudden, heaven came down to earth - I found a foolscap book ( for those of you were born after 1960, ‘foolscap’ is the name of a standard paper size about 4 cm.

longer than A4 and about 5 cm. less in width) with 220 very closely typed pages, with a very imposing title - 1973 A Book of Visions, subtitled ‘a directory of alternative society projects’. I was reminded that I wrote and contributed something to it. Lo and behold there was written on the front cover in pencil p 26/27, so quickly turning to these pages I was delighted to find that I was quite a prophet back then in 1973! I hope you also find some pleasure in reading what I was into then. In any case, it inspired me to make this compendium. Optimist that I am I called it Volume Number 1. Hope you enjoy it.BJ

Notes to the Revised Edition

Although I was aware that there were other materials stashed away I decided to write the first edition without them basically because I had no idea where they could be! To cut a long story short I was very happy to find them all in Sofia - in October 2009.

Enjoy!

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Part l1973 A Book of Visionsincluding the Declaration of Intentof Bryn Jones at the time of The Works ... 4 - 13

The WorksNotes and pictures ... ... ... ... ... 14 - 21

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Additional pictures and documentation ... 22 - 48

Caernarfon Castle at Night - just around the corner from BJ’s birthplace

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The proud new proprietor!

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Joanna the artist, Bryn’s partner in The Extra Company and mother of Edda

The Works Canteen!

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Steve from the US - a helping hand

Carlyle one of the first artists to find The Works

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The Main Workshop when we moved in

... and after a few months

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Our friendly neighbourhood policeman with John and Brendan

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Charles the fabric designer

Jeff the sculptor/designer

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Amazing people - amazing days!

Aedan Kelly

Jack Ayton

Kevin Spicer

Janina, Jeff and Kai Lech

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Bryn, Joanna and Ken

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Bobby ReadJohn Lott

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Janine, Kai and The Works Office

Ken the photographer

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Keith the poet

Mario the designer

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Jeff and the first chair production line...

John and the first steel table

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Clothes production - Janet, Maureen and Mary and the baby!

... and music production

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Reg the sculptor

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The head of William Blake

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Notes about some of the people in and around The Works.

Aedan Kelly who made amazing silk screen prints on silk.

Anne Sutherland - Astrologer.Bryn Jones - Designer, healer, father.Bobby Read - did her ‘praktikum’ at The

Works.Bonny Boston worked on her life.Brendan McStravick helped his cousin John.Bruce Gernand constructed The Head of

William Blake with Jim Leon.Carlyle Reedy, Poet, Artist and founder of

Monkey Theatre.Carol Forbes-Thomson designed clothes for

Charles Patrick’s ‘grafiti materials’.Carolee Schneemann was Bryn’s inspiration.Edda Venusia is the daughter of Joanna and

Bryn.Eric Schubert-Stevens, a Bauhaus graduate

designed Exhibition Stands.Geoff Dickson was a local trader.Gugi Sesti - Art Publisher.Ira Einhorn - later suspected of killing his

girlfriend in South of France.Jack Ayton, retired house painter knew The

Works as a ‘real’ factory!James Doody - Light Artist, created the

fabulous light shows for the first Glastonbury Festivals.

Jan Bendermacher - Artist from Germany.Janet Douglas, designed the clothes for

‘OneOff ’ whilst Maureen and Mary helped her.

Janina Mintowt-Czyz, Mother of Kai, ran the office.

Jeff Boadle, Father of Kai, Sculptor, creator of furniture.

Jerome ... was later pop music journalist for The Times.

Joanna Cock, later Jones - Artist, mother.John Lifton shared his experiences with The

Dairy - a bigger project in Chalk farm.John Lott - Designer of beautiful wooden

furniture.John McStravick, Irishman, Constructor of

Stainless Steel furniture and objects. Dealt.Kai Lech, son of Janina and Jeff.Keefe West - Actor and singer.Keith Jones - Poet, later head of the British

Council in Oman.Ken Sutherland - Photographer.Kevin Spicer - Artist.Lindsay Blackwell - Graphic Designer.Mario Thomson - Designer/maker of acrylic

objects, large and small.Pat Hunt - Plumber.Philip Speller - Clothesmaker.Reg Jacobs - Sculptor.Ruth Lakowski - Media Artist.Sarah Sesti, Gugi’s muse.Sona Kalundin - Potter.Theresa d’Abo - completely lost touch!Valerie Ludbrooke - Fashion Designer.Steve Kunika - was just passing through...

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Facsimile of the original Flyer‘Declaration of Intent’

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Facsimile of the originalArticle in ‘Magazine 19’

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Facsimile of the originalWorks News

21st. June 1973

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Facsimile of the originalWorks Structure Summer 1972

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Facsimile of the originalWorks Organogram

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Facsimile of the originalNotice of Termination

4 Sept. 1973 for March 1974

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Notes to the photographs on the previous pagesThis is a small selection based simply on accident, synchronicity or simply the fact that they were available as the decision was made to produce this volume! In any case I was pleased to find some of the photos of people with whom I have lost touch. So, if you see yourself here, do please get in touch with Bryn Jones.

For news of the artist Joanna Jones go towww.joannajones.co.uk

For news of Edda Venusia Jones go towww.eddajones.com

Bryn and Joanna ended up in Germany, got divorced, each married again and they are still good friends! Edda is back in the UK.Bryn Jones closed his private practice as psychotherapist and naturopath in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 2006. Meanwhile he got married to Jana Marinova-Jones and shares his time between Germany and Bulgaria.For more about his work, please go towww.SnowdragonClinic.com

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All content and images copyright © Bryn Jones and Snowdragon Ltd. 2009. All black and white photographs by Juliet Highet. All rights reserved.

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Bryn Jones, N.D. is a psychotherapist and naturopath living partly in Sofia, Bulgaria and partly in Freiburg, Black Forest, Germany when he is not travelling with his wife Jana to one of his favourite places in the Far East.Contact per e-mail:mail @ bryn - jones. com

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