CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: In the second season of The Great on Channel 4, a smaller cast with plenty of space between them evokes the grandeur of a royal court.
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Among these pictures of intricate displays built on Weymouth’s golden sands is an impressive cathedral. This beautiful sand sculpture was the work of Jack Hayward, who was known as Skivvy Hayward. Despite only having one eye, Skivvy Hayward had fantastic attention to detail and did all his carving with a kitchen knife. The cathedral was made out of an oblong of sand and all the carving was done with a kitchen knife. Roy Groves remembers helping Jack build castles on the sands as a boy, using an ARP pump and seawater to keep the sand moist. Roy sent in a photograph of a model that he helped Jack build in around 1947 when he would have been about 14 years old. He said: “I used to down to the beach in my dinner times from school and afterwards to help out. Jack was always building churches and cathedrals.