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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Lioness drinking

Female lion (Panthera leo) drinking from a pool. Lions are social cats that live in groups (prides) comprising several females, adolescents and young and one or two males. Females (lionesses) perform most of a pride's hunting, which occurs both at night and by day. They hunt co-operatively, with several females encircling the prey before making the kill. Prey includes antelopes, zebra and smaller mammals. Lions are found throughout sub- Saharan Africa and parts of Asia. Photographed in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, which lies in both Botswana and South Africa

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