For The Year of the Three Roses the Tower of Art was in shades of brown and purple. Rumour has it that this choice of colour was greatly influenced by Hilary Daniels’ love of Cadbury’s chocolate. It was released in sheets of 18 at the same time as the other definitives.

There were two true sports, and one  ‘sort-of’ sport. They were printed on the spare part of the paper at 90 degrees to the main sheet in a block of three. On the right is the mirrored buildings sport, on the left is the magic water sport and in-between a common stamp that had a selvedge top and bottom. These appeared singly in LBEs, but it is possible that mini-sheets of three stamps reside in a few collections.

The mirrored buildings has the Tower and the background buildings mirrored, as well as the clouds, the water ripples, and the reflection of the buildings in the water. The birds stay in the same positions. Because the Tower is not quite central, the lower bird on the right is flying closer to the Tower. Surprisingly, the weather vane on the Great Hall is not reversed; it still points left. Why this should be so is lost in the mists of time. The  magic water sport has just the water ripples and building reflections mirrored.

The uncut, and unperforated sheet shows how the different components fitted. The last bit of space was for printing the LBE only Penny Patrician sports for the year (and perhaps other extras for collectors), but that’s another story.