Images Dated 6th May 2003

Rhuddlan Castle, LMS poster, 1929

Poster produced for London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) to promote rail travel to Rhuddlan Castle, Denbighshirre, Wales. The castle was built in the 11th century and changed hands between Wales and England several times, but with the establishment of English rule in Wales it finally passed into the keeping of the Crown. It was ravaged by Parliamentarians in 1643. Artwork by Norman Wilkinson, 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) and organised the Royal Academy series of posters for the LMR in 1924. Dimensions: 1016 mm x 635 mm

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Optical image of galaxies in the Virgo cluster

Coma-Virgo galaxy cluster. Optical image ofthe core of the Coma-Virgo cluster of galaxies, lying in the constellation Virgo. North is towardsthe top left corner. The bright ellipticalgalaxies at upper right are M86 (NGC 4406, left), and M84 (NGC 4374, right). At lower centre is thehuge spherical galaxy M87 (NGC 4486). At top leftis the galaxy NGC 4459. The four fainter galaxiesat upper centre are (from left to right): NGC4477, NGC 4473, NGC 4461, and the double galaxyNGC 4438 (lower) and NGC 4435. The Coma-Virgocluster is one of the nearest large clusters ofgalaxies, lying between 20 and 70 million lightyears away

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Chapel of the Thistle, Edinburgh, LNER/LMS poster, 1930

Poster produced for London & North Easter Railway (LNER) and London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) to promote rail travel to Edinburgh. The poster shows the interior of the Chapel of the Thistle, St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh. The Thistle Chapel is home to the Order of the Thistle and and honours some of the greatest Scots of the last 300 years. Artwork by Fred Taylor, who was commissioned in 1930 to design four ceiling paintings for the Underwriting Room at Lloyd's and murals for Reed's Lacquer Room. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and other London galleries and worked for LNER, London Transport and several shipping companies. Dimensions: 1016 mm x 1270 mm

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