Dot Heywood Traditional Blackpool Flash

WHAT EFFING PART OF I HAVE LOST MY PHONE, it may have been to tip and I have no contact with the people I need to … WHAT… makes ya think that calling it is helping… your just running down battery on a frivolous act that is NOT useful!’ Maybe helping me look would b more productive??!!! Oh yes it would!! No worries…. You don’t need to contact me if & and when I get phone I will decide if to call back!!li. Life 2 short…

Zahra Cherry-Pie Salem has misplaced phone … apart from here … no contact with world

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Book coming I just need the ok from my sisters! Xx. Featuring art from Terry, mumsie dearest, old Blackpool memorabilia, set of flash and some previous unseen pics! Xx

Business Center visited after 2 hours./… good things to come despite the setback!! Xx

Has had a head wobble, parked my grief, decided what I think mumsie dearest would want me to do! Am learning, with the great help of Antoinette 😹 good things are to come! Working on something! It’s going to feature…… goin to leave ya guessin now! Xx

Wow! Long live the Blackpool Swallow! Mum flys all the way to Canada! Thankyou Lal! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Is practicing her swallows… mine look more like Terry’s!!! I have no patience, If it’s not done in 10 seconds! Hahaha. Xx

Has just come across a pencil drawing mum did before I was born…. It came back to her from a guy she drew it for in Madrid! Amazing stuff! Xx

Has found unseen work!!! Wow!!!!!!! Xx

He’s just not normal… thank the stars…. But then… my sisters are a strange but a beautiful world in their own, our new family rocks… … one of the best NYE for about 13 years! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️xx

Well after a very crazy few months, Dot's dog has moved in with me & the cat's. She would love to say a little hello..... woof woof, Snuffle snuffle, grunt. I hope you all have a very merry yule. lick lick..... 🐾x

For all those that know mumsie dearest, (Dot Shaw Dorothy Heywood) the funeral is booked for Wednesday 15th December at 3.30pm. Service will be at Lytham Crematorium. I will keep you all posted on the rest of the arrangements as they are made. 💕

It is with immense sadness I inform members of our group of the passing of Dot Shaw .
Dot worked under the name of Dorothy Heywood with Prince Eugene in Blackpool from 1958-1972 .
Terry Manton whilst researching old newspaper articles found mention of Dot in a newspaper cutting - this lead to him finding Dot via Facebook and making contact with her .
Terry and Dot formed a friendship and her fascinating story was told to a whole generation of tattooists .
When Dot joined our group she posted a picture of one of her swallow designs , the image was just in black and red , the colours they used back in the day in Blackpool .
I loved the simplicity and aesthetic of this design and actually had a pair of these swallows tattooed on me .
Dot started to re draw the classics from her Blackpool era and I for one started to tattoo copies onto to clients .
Dot enjoyed seeing the different versions tattooists were doing of her designs.
Dot made so many friends through her new found tattoo interest and I know their are Dot Shaw designs adorning studio walls around the globe now .
I would on behalf of our group send our love , thoughts and condolences to Dot’s family and friends.
Rest in Peace Dot 🙏❤️

Broken!

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

Its Happening! All the hardware is here, just waiting on 1 item and we a go! now If I can only keep the cats out of the empty boxes! Xx

If anyone wants to see Dot speak about her era please take a look at the interview she did with Terry Tatt Hist. Part 3 on this link below. Thanks For Looking! Xx

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT6EQulbgyGeKa8t5xSLGGZg_-ONuw0Hh

Coming soon… Dot Heywood official merchandise Featuring her art. Please watch this space! Xx

Dot was the first professional female tattoo artist in blackpool.

In her action-packed lifetime she learned the secrets of the tattooing trade from Prince Eugene, tattooed side by side with Terry Wrigley, was on first name terms with tattooing giant Harry Lever, crossed swords with Jimmy Gould (on more than one occasion) and had a beauty spot tattooed on her face by Mick Wigfall.

All this in her first few years of a 13 year career in Britain’s biggest tattoo resort…Blackpool!

Dorothy ranks among the very few professional female tattoo artists that operated in Britain at that time. Back when Winnie Ayres was an apprentice of Jessie Knight in 1960, Dorothy had already been tattooing in Blackpool for a couple of seasons.

A talented artist at school with a great eye for design Dorothy was introduced by a friend to Jamaican immigrant Eugene Lawrence who had just opened a tattoo studio in Blackpool. Eugene had learned to tattoo from Rex Stoker and had taken over his prominent pitch at the front of The Montmartre Theatre on Blackpool’s Promenade. The year was 1958 and Eugene was impressed by Dorothy’s talent and immediately offered her a job tattooing beside him.

She began by her training by drawing flash. She designed sheets that would be popular and quick to execute on the waiting hordes of customers that gathered around the cabin well into the early hours of the morning. She also learned to strip down, clean and re-assemble the coil machines. She mixed colours, prepared and organised the transfers (which they used on large pieces only) and also drew any portraits that were required for tattooing when required.

She began her tattooing journey by colouring in Eugene’s outlines in order to get a ‘feel’ for the machines and needles. She then progressed to tattooing on her own under Eugene’s watchful eye.

In 1960 Terry Wrigley came to work for Eugene in Blackpool. Dorothy got on great with Terry and loved working alongside him. She learned a lot from him and although he only worked for Eugene for 2 summer seasons Terry and Dot’s friendship endured until Terry’s death in 1999.

Dorothy and Eugene worked side by side for 13 years. At one point they had three shops all working at the same time and were surrounded by Jimmy Gould, Johnny and Barry Norton, Ted and Bernie Hayes, Ron Crofts, Mick Wigfal, Peter Aitkinson, Ron and John Carter, Joe Cleverly, Derek Higham and lots more top tattooers of the time.

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