Former artist and teacher Birtley Aris leaves a legacy to others across Tyne Valley
TRIBUTES have been paid to a talented artist after his death aged 93. Birtley Aris was born in Sunderland to parents Dorothy and Frederick. He attended Chester Road and West Park Central schools before going on to study at the Sunderland College of Art and Craft. During World War II, he was a Bevin Boy coalminer at Silksworth Colliery. He then went on to work at stained glass studios in Newcastle, London and Brighton, before a stint in the civil service in London, where he met wife Jean R...
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