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Clifford and Rosemary had bought a house in a Wiltshire village just below the downs where the family moved in 1972. One sunny room was allocated as a studio, and another became home to Clifford’s large and wide-ranging book collection. Below the house, Clifford planted a new valley garden with an artist’s eye. He continued to teach, part-time, on adult education courses, and he and Rosemary collaborated with others on the texts of educational books for children. Rosemary pursued her photographic interests and, with her elder daughter, Penelope, produced numerous sets of large prints illustrating aspects of the natural and man-made world. They also, of course, continued to design the New Naturalist book jackets as well as some of those of the Collins Countryside series. Both their daughters qualified, Penelope as a sculptor at the Slade and subsequently as a teacher at the Institute of Education at London University, and Charlotte as an architect at the Regent Street Polytechnic.

Book jacket designed by c&re, 1945 and published by Collins. The author, Stuart Smith went on to write The Yellow Wagtail in the NN monographs.

Clifford died, after a short illness, 19 March 1985, aged 78. Rosemary and Penelope continued to live in the same house until Rosemary’s death, aged 87, on Ascension Day, 21 May 1998. They are buried in the same grave on a grassy plot in the village cemetery below the downs under a headstone (carved by Penelope with some advice from Charlotte), inscribed simply ‘C&RE ‘with their respective dates.