while working at burghclere, spencer also undertook other small commissions including a series of five paintings, on the theme of "industry and peace", for the empire marketing board in 1929, which were not used, and a series of 24 pen-and-ink sketches for a 1927 almanack. much later in his life spencer adapted seven of these sketches into paintings including "the dustbin, cookham" painted in 1958.