Quad Royal

It’s been a while. Sorry, I’ve been busy writing about hill forts and cows and men who stride out to walk. But all the time, this thought has been nagging away at me. It’s a very simple que...

http://vintageposterblog.com/2021/05/10/double-pott-and-an-elephant-please/

When Kenneth Clark set up Recording Britain in 1939, the idea was to capture the spirit and atmosphere of ‘typical’ Britain*, hence the use of watercolour rather than photography, because tha...

http://vintageposterblog.com/2020/02/10/planning-ahead/

I was going to try and order the Recording Britain pieces so that they told a story, but that requires a kind of logical organisation which eludes me at the moment. Also I have spilt coffee on my...

http://vintageposterblog.com/2020/01/28/what-the-dickens-miss-jones/

Right, we are going a bit off-piste for a while, mainly because I have a bunch of interesting stories that don’t have a home elsewhere. For the last few working weeks I’ve been immersing myse...

http://vintageposterblog.com/2020/01/16/recording-britain-an-introduction/

Sound the klaxon, there’s a bargain in the area. It doesn’t get to blare out that often these days, posters being what they are, but the objects of interest today aren’t paper but ceramic. ...

http://vintageposterblog.com/2020/01/13/harry-stevens/

This was my Christmas present. If only I could go back in time to actually attend the private view. It was sent through the post to Herbert Simon at the Curwen Press, hence the postmark smudges o...

http://vintageposterblog.com/2020/01/10/the-eyes-have-it/

I can’t remember how this poster came to my attention, but it’s been waiting for me to post it for a while. It’s interesting for a couple of reasons. Well, three really, because one of them...

http://vintageposterblog.com/2019/06/28/guilty-pleasures/

Really quite a long time ago, I put these two posters up on here. Mainly because they’d appeared on eBay and I rather liked the look of them. And also because they fantastic, and furthermore be...

http://vintageposterblog.com/2019/05/29/the-taste-sensation/

In writing about Lilian Dring, I returned to the subject of Empire Marketing Board poster hoardings with their fantastic and unique layout It’s been a while since I considered this properly , s...

http://vintageposterblog.com/2018/11/09/palaver/

Sigh. I really, really didn’t want to be right about Lilian Dring; that she was forced into the female arena of needlework after being pushed out of the world of poster design.  But I am.  Th...

http://vintageposterblog.com/2018/10/30/i-am-what-i-am/