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Fairground posters : a theme emerges

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 …

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The British seaside was never like this !

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 …

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