An unearthed archive of an art lover's interviews with an ageing LS Lowry have revealed he saw himself as "a drifter" who knew a lot of people but "never had a girl".

Angela Bogg spent hours speaking to the artist towards the end of his life in the 1970s, after becoming an admirer of his urban landscapes while visiting Salford Art Gallery on her lunch break.

The then-27-year-old's recordings were found by her son after her death in 2022 and have now been donated to the arts centre that bears Lowry's name.

In them, the artist spoke about being a "homebird" as a young man and how the paintings that made him famous only came about because of a house move.

The chats took place after Mrs Bogg met the director of the art gallery while working as an administrator at the nearby University of Salford.

During a talk she gave in 2020, she said he introduced her to Lowry and a friendship grew between them, which led to her taking a borrowed reel-to-reel recorder to his home in the Tameside village of Mottram in Longdendale.

She explained they would talk at length and though Lowry was a notoriously private man, the........

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