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Description: | During the 1920s and 30s, hundreds of London Transport posters depicted inviting scenes in the countryside. Many showed specific destinations, citing bus services connecting with Underground services. Others, like this poster by Edward Purser Lancaster, presented idealised rural retreats as a general inducement to leisure travel to the country.
Lancaster's poster was issued in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War Two. Unnecessary travel was soon discouraged and posters advertising leisure travel no longer displayed. London Transport publicity moved away from its commercial function to adopt a new wartime role. Posters became a forum for propaganda, advertising recruitment campaigns, morale boosting and celebrating staff achievements. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Leisure Art and Design | Temporal: | 1939 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Printer : The Baynard Press | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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