Images Dated 29th July 2003

Blackpools New Promenades, LMS poster, 1923- 1947

Poster produced for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS), promoting express rail travel to the Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool, showing holiday-makers strolling on the new seafront promenades, with Blackpool Tower and pier in the background. Artwork by Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986). Bonestell later became known as the father of space art, creating photorealistic paintings and contributing to the beginnings of the USA space programme in the 1940s and 1950s. Printed by McCorquodale & Co Ltd

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Great Yarmouth, BR (ER) poster, 1959

Poster produced for British Railways (BR) Eastern Region (ER), promoting rail travel to the Norfolk seaside resort of Great Yarmouth, showing an aerial view of the beach, sea and the Britannia Pier, with the Marina Open Air Theatre in the foreground. The theatre was built in 1937 but was demolished in 1979 to make way for a new seafront leisure complex. Artwork by Bagley. Dimensions: 1010mm x 635mm. Printed by Jordison & Co Ltd, London & Middlesbrough

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Ullswater - The English Lucerne, NER poster, 1912

Poster produced for the North Eastern Railway (NER), promoting rail travel to Ullswater, Cumbria, in the Lake District, showing a series of views of Howtown Bay, Aira Force, Stybarrow Crag and the Head of Ullswater. The poster also gives a timetable of sailings made by the Royal Mail Steam Yachts of the Ullswater Navigation & Transit Co Ltd, which sailed on the lake every day except Sundays. Formed in 1854, the North Eastern Railway was incorporated into London & North Eastern Railway in 1923

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