Images Dated 21st July 2003

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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Launch of TSS Duke of York, LMS poster, 1935

Poster produced for the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) to promote services to the launch of the TSS Duke of York at the Queen's Island shipyard, Belfast, Northern Ireland. This steamer was built by Harland and Wolff and was launched by the LMS on 7 March 1935, for operation on the Heysham to Belfast route. It became a troop transport vessel during WWII and was involved in the Dieppe raid of August 1942. Artwork by Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971), 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). Dimensions: 1016 mm x 1270 mm

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Worcesters engine

Worcester's engine. Historical artwork of the second Marquis of Worcester's engine. The design was granted a patent in 1663. Worcester called it his water commanding engine, as its function was to raise water. This is often credited with being the first steam engine, however some believe that it was actually operated by a manual pump. It might have been used for supplying water to canals, or for draining water from mines or marshes. A model of the engine was demonstrated at Vauxhall, London from 1663 until 1667, the year of Worcester's death. Published in History and progress of the steam engine, England, 1830

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