While Tate Britain is showing his most famous industrial scenes, many of the Lowry's exhibits are art school sketches, preparatory drawings or visual aid memoires he made on scraps of paper while walking the streets of Salford and Manchester.
Almost 40 years later, oddly enough, as she was being driven through Florida by her son, also Jim, she spotted in the wilderness, miles from anywhere, an old man in a mackintosh holding a paper bag and walking with a cane.