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Description: | Posters were produced by British Railways (BR) to promote holiday destinations available to the public when travelling by train with them. Frank Sherwin, an artist from Derby, specialised in watercolour painting and he painted many of the scenes shown on the railway posters during the 1940s and 1950s.
Railway poster based on a watercolour by Frank Sherwin titled "The River Wharfe, Ilkley, Yorkshire". It is a river scene with rowing boats and an arched bridge in the background. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Watercolour painting Black Country Yorkshire England Holidays Lithography Boats Railways Railway transport Inland waterways Walsall Lithographic Company Limited River Wharfe Rivers Printed materials Bridges Countryside Landscape Printing industry Advertising British Railways Ilkley Walsall Posters Advertisements Country life Rural life Rural areas | Temporal: | 1948 - 1955
The 40s (1940-1949) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Walsall Lithographic Company Limited; 1894-2009 | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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