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Description: | Poster, Southern Railway, 'I'm Taking and Early Holiday cos I know Summer Comes Soonest in the South', 1936. Photograph showing a small boy carrying a suitcase on the platform at Waterloo station talking to the fireman of N15 King Arthur class 4-6-0 locomotive No 755 'The Red Knight', as he leans from the cab. Text beneath. The original black and white photograph was taken by Charles E Brown and coloured for reproduction in the poster. The boy has been identified as Ronald Witt and the fireman as William Woof. Text on the bottom margin of this poster reads "Southern Railway Advertising. Ad 3251. 10,000/1936. Johnson, Riddle & Co. Ltd., London, SE1". Format, double royal, 40 x 25 ins, 1035 x 650 mm, backed. The original version of this poster was published in 1925, with the text "For holidays I always go Southern 'cos it's the Sunshine Line". See 1985-8848 for a version published in Italian. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | poster | Temporal: | 1936 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Southern Railway | Identifier: | http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grab... | Go to resource |
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