Poster To Poster - Future Volumes
Volume 3 features the British North West. We begin in Carlisle and tour the English Lake District before coming south to industrial Lancashire. It is then along the North Wales Coast to Holyhead and across the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland. We then cross to the Isle of Man before finishing where we started back in Cumberland. The front cover features Blackpool’s promenade, with imposing Caernarvon Castle on the rear.
Volume 4 covers the Eastern Counties of England. We take a journey from Lincolnshire to Essex. This takes in the cathedral cities of Lincoln, Ely, Peterborough, Cambridge, Norwich, Bury St. Edmunds and Chelmsford. We also see the picturesque Norfolk Broads, tranquil Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Hertfordshire en route. We finish at the seaside in Southend-on-Sea. The cover is Tom Purvis’s Norfolk Broads with Frank Mason’s impressive Harwich Docks on the rear.
Volume 5 covers the Heart of England and most of Wales. We begin in Derbyshire and move south through Nottingham, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. The rest of the journey is pure GWR. The next part of the journey begins in Shropshire, then through the counties of the 3 Choirs (Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire) before arriving into Oxford. We move then into Wales covering Monmouthshire, Montgomery, Merioneth, Cardigan, Radnor, Brecknock, Glamorgan and Carmarthen before ending our journey in West Wales at Pembroke. The front cover is Carr Linford’s wonderful Oxford High Street with Richmond’s Tintern Abbey on the rear.
Volume 6 features the Eastern half of Southern England. An extended visit to London starts our journey and it is then to the coast in Kent, the Garden of England. We track through the counties of Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire and across Hampshire before arrival into Bournemouth. In classical poster times this was in Hampshire before county ‘tinkering’ now places it in Dorset. There is a wonderful selection of SR and British Railways posters in this volume. The front cover is Frank Mason’s superb London Pride, with Frank Sherwin’s evocative painting of the Kent oasthouses on the rear.
Volume 7 - This is an addition from the original plan. There are so many wonderful South-Western area posters that they really deserve a volume to themselves. We begin in Smiling Somerset and travel through Wiltshire until the West Country beckons. It is through beautiful Dorset with its magnificent coastline and rolling hills behind and then into Devon and Cornwall. Here a veritable blizzard of evocative posters is shown together for the first time. The journey finishes off the mainland, with first a trip to the Isles of Scilly before we end in the Channel Isles. The cover is Frank Wootton’s superb painting of Torquay, Devon with the famous 1859 Brunel Bridge at Saltash, Cornwall by Anton van Anrooy on the rear.
Volume 8 now covers General Advertising, Foreign travel (as advertised by the British railway companies, especially the Southern Railway) a few foreign posters that advertised Britain plus station hotels, shipping, air services and other fringe railway business posters. This cover is, as yet, not designed and we welcome suggestions from any readers as to what you might like to see as the cover jacket. We do have some suggestions at present.