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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

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Ely - Its Quicker by Rail, LNER poster, 1940

Poster produced for the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) showing a view of the city's huge Norman cathedral, with houses and a river in the foreground. Ely Cathedral was founded as a monastic church in 1083, becoming a cathedral in 1109, and stands on a chalk hill overlooking the city. Artwork by Loxton Knight

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