Trending

Welwyn Garden City, railway poster, c 1930s

Welwyn Garden City, A Greatly Improved Train Service to King's Cross'. Poster promoting Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire as a commuter town, showing a clock design superimposed onto stylised locomotives. The text includes rental and purchase prices of homes (up to £2, 000 for a house). The town was founded by social reformer and pioneer of town planning, Ebenezer Howerd (1850-1928) in 1920 with the aim of easing overpopulation in London. Artwork by C W Bacon. Printed by the Dangerfield Printing Co Ltd, London. Dimensions: 1016mm x 635mm

© Please read our licence terms. All digital images must be destroyed unless otherwise agreed in writing.

Bath - The Georgian City, BR poster, 1950

Poster produced by British Railways (BR) to promote rail travel to Bath, North East Somerset. The poster shows a view of the Pump Room, part of the baths built by the Romans who were drawn to Bath, which they named Aquae Sulis, because of its unique natural hot springs. In the 18th century, Bath was the most fashionable resort in England. Artwork by Claude Buckle (1905-1973), who originally trained as an architect, but later turned to pictorial art. He painted in both oil and watercolour and was a prolific poster artist for Great Western Railway (GWR) and BR. Much of his original poster artwork is held at the National Railway Museum

© Please read our licence terms. All digital images must be destroyed unless otherwise agreed in writing.

Golf in Northern Ireland, LMS poster

Poster produced for the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) to promote rail links to Portrush, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, showing a view of the golf course. This is one of a series of posters commissioned to illustrate the many different sports and pastimes that could be enjoyed within the area covered by the LMS. Artwork by Norman Wilkinson, who studied art at Portsmouth and Southsea Schools of Art. A famous marine painter, he designed posters for the London & North Western Railway (LNWR), the London & Midlands Railway (LMR) and Southern Railway (SR) and organised the Royal Academy series of posters for the LMR in 1924. Dimensions: 1016 mm x 1270 mm

© Please read our licence terms. All digital images must be destroyed unless otherwise agreed in writing.