I am sitting here on my own at Alton Towers chaperoning a group of teenage girls. I am supposed to be watching them (they ditched me in the first 10 minutes). By the way : The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ride is being knocked down : which is a shame. So some guardian I …
The start of the school holidays : a great time to be alive. The intention of this blog was to show the Railway posters of the time and compare with the current reality. What i uncovered was a little out of the ordinary Now that’s what I call a diving board! The Lido: branded …
Something was in the water when these ‘classical’ British railway posters were produced. William H Barribal had obviously never been to the Yorkshire coast, surely he was getting confused with classical Venice Was Alfred Lambert getting confused between Tyneside and Florence ? Alfred Lambert (1902-1970), studied art at the Allan-Frazer Art College in Arbroathy, must …
Just returned from a camping expedition to Robin Hoods Bay so thought I would see if it featured and was amazed to find at least 4 railway posters for this small what can only be called village just south of Whitby. As usual we have two very different takes on the same subject. The first …
