Cushing And His Hobbies. In the past few weeks we've posted features on
Cushing's many hobbies and the many happy hours he spent in his home
studio making thousands of model soldiers to participate in table top
'Little Wars' gaming, the building of beautiful working theatres,
complete with acting figures, sets and lighting, his talent for painting
in water colours and oils, that went on to be exhibited, the board
games he invented and made for visiting friends to play..so it shouldn't
surprise you to find out he also owned, a train set.
But, not a person
to do anything by halves, this train set was permanently mounted in his
studio room upstairs at both the Cushing's homes in Hillsleigh Road,
London and Whitstable...a model train set built around a hand built
town, with people, shops, streets, a factory, a train station and goods
yard....Cushing's first job on leaving school, for as short a time as he
could stand it, was working at the grand sounding... Planning and
Drawing Office of the Surveyor's Department at Coulsdon and Purley Urban
District Council in his home town. No doubt, the 'town planning'
experience came in handy!
