Images Dated 23rd June 2003

The Devon Belle, SR poster, 1947

Poster produced for Southern Railway (SR) to promote rail services between the West of England and Waterloo Station, London. The poster shows The Devon Belle, an all-Pullman locomotive with an observation carriage travelling at speed through a light-coloured, nearly monotonal landscape. The service ran on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays and called at Sidmouth Junction, Exeter Central, Ilfracombe and Plymouth Friary. Artwork by Marc Fernand Severin, who was born in Brussels and lived in England from 1932 to 1940 and from 1945 to 1949, working first as Art Director at an advertising agency and then as a free-lance artist, advertising designer and book illustrator. Dimensions: 1016 mm x 1270 mm

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Holidays are Happy Days at Lytham St Annes, LMS poster, 1923-1947

Poster produced for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) to promote rail travel to Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. Artwork by Septimus E Scott

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Space tourists

Space tourists. Conceptual computer artwork of spaceboarders outside a space hotel orbiting Earth with the moon in the background. The hotel is constructed from used shuttle fuel tanks, connected together with a central core for docking with. NASA's space shuttle was designed to be reusable, with the exception of the fuel tanks that power the shuttle into orbit. They fall back to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere. However, they could be kept in orbit and fitted out as a hotel. Wealthy tourists of the future might be able to stay in such accommodation, and try out activities such as space walking or spaceboarding

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