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Description: | This is the original artwork for an Underground poster promoting Shad Thames. It was painted by the illustrator and designer John Finnie. The picturesque yet industrial street is on the riverside near Tower Bridge in southeast London. The name Shad Thames is a corruption of St John at Thames, a reference to the Knights Templar of the Order of St Johns, who owned a lot of the land in the area. The area surrounding the street, Butler's Wharf, has also informally adopted the name Shad Thames.
In the 1960s, Finnie illustrated Green Line coach maps, which were issued both as posters and as pocket maps. In the 1970s, illustrations by hand were replaced with photographs. Since then illustrated maps have rarely been used in advertising campaigns. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | London Transport Museum collection | Subjects: | Cityscape Art and Design | Temporal: | circa 1963 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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