Mike
Ex-London Underground and retired back to "The North" - transport, design history, things industrial all tickle my fancy. Postings often link to my Flickr account for more things!
- Evening bike ride through the lanes of North Yorkshire - hill climbing about to begin! Glorious weather during this unusual dry Spring. #cycling #yorkshire #landscape #photography #countryside
- Two grainy screenshots of the "New Town of East Kilbride" on a dreich day, from a 'Look at Life" film on engineering. #newtowns #planning #scotland #architecture #1960s
- c.1938 Associated British & Irish Railways map folder prob. for the N. American market - with Philips mapping, probably first used by the LNER c.1936, of a style that would influence the post-1948 nationalised British Railways mapping. #maps #cartography #railways Zoomable ↘️ flic.kr/p/2r3hQiA
- c.1925 cover to the London & North Eastern Railway's "Holiday Suggestions" booklet with a cover by noted poster artist Austin Cooper (1890 - 1964). A rather old-fashoned take showing a demure Victorian relaxing by the seaside. #travel #railways #ephemera ↘️ flic.kr/p/2r3fTpt
- Sample pages from a c.1952/53 catalogue of Relief Scrap Pictures by the well-known colour printers Raphael Tuck. As well as the Coronation there's a sheet of British Railways scraps that includes the station kiosk. #railways #printing ↘️ flic.kr/p/2r35NdW
- On this day, 7 May 1973, British Rail's Southern Region were about telling us of changes to train services. However, not is all as it seems, operator-wise, about this generic poster. #railways #typography @doublearrow64.bsky.social ↘️ flic.kr/p/2mWTscM
