[1] Sherwin was born in Derby and grew up in a house named Elm Wood on Thornhill Road.
[citation needed] In 1957, British Rail commissioned Sherwin to paint the Ilkey Lido for a poster.
[2] For the last forty-six years of his life, Sherwin lived in Cookham village in Berkshire.
Cookham is also the village of Sir Stanley Spencer, one of England's most renowned artists.
[citation needed] In 2015, a rare 1939 railway poster signed by Frank Sherwin, with the words "Penzance in the Cornish Riviera" was expected to sell for 1,000 pounds at auction.