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Description: | Poster were produced by British Railways (BR) to promote holiday destinations available to the public when travelling by train with them. Leonard Squirrell, an artist from Ipswich, painted a number of watercolours which were used for railway posters during the 1940s and 1950s.
Railway poster based on a watercolour by Leonard R. Squirrell titled "Richmond, Yorkshire". The poster shows a panoramic view across the landscape with a small farm visible in the foreground. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Printed materials Watercolour painting Fields Yorkshire Black Country Countryside Landscape Printing industry England Richmond Holidays Advertising Lithography Buildings British Railways Walsall Railway transport Posters Advertisements Walsall Lithographic Company Limited 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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