
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
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With MacConnal-Mason & Son, London
Private Collection, U.S.A.
Ina Taylor notes that within Bradley's pictorial world Biddy Murphy is 'an elderly Irish woman with numerous children, lives close to the Murgatroyds. She loves children and will tell them yarns about leprechauns as she doles out home-made bread. She also tells far more scary stories involving a tiger who lives down a local alleyway and can be heard roaring' (Ina Taylor, Helen Bradley's Lancashire, Halsgrove, Devon, 2002, p.22).