Poster To Poster - Future Volumes

Volume 6 features the British North West. We begin in Carlisle and tour the English Lake District before coming south to industrial Lancashire. It is then through Cheshire, stopping in the fabulous city of Chester, before entering Wales to travel along the North Wales Coast to Holyhead. Talking the Irish Sea ferry to Northern Ireland, we tour this often neglected part of the British Isles in art. There are some lovely posters for this area, before it is another sea crossing to the Isle of Man. We finish the journey where we started, back in Cumberland. The front cover features Blackpool’s promenade in the 1930s, with Norman Wilkinson’s painting of imposing Caernarvon Castle 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, a super GWR poster, 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 the moment, but readers’ ideas are always most welcome.