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From Sooted Shadows. Coal Miner Raymond Moore was 50 and his wife Mary was 40 when their son Henry was born on July 30, 1898, in Castleford. There is something in the Yorkshire country, with its brooding hills and its sooted shadows, that brings out the digger and molder in a man, and by the age of ten Moore knew he would be a sculptor. Their miner's home was poor and crowded-Henry was the seventh of eight children. Father Moore was a fair but stern man. Says son Henry: "He was the complete Victorian father, aloof, spoiled...
Bird Scarer. Short, blue-eyed Henry Moore is the son of a self-educated Yorkshire miner. Henry's first work was scaring birds out of grain fields at the age of nine. His first piece of sculpture was his school's (Castleford Grammar) World War I roll of honor, which he did before joining the British Army himself...
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