Christie's sale of vintage posters
No doubt that if you have taken a trip on the London Underground, you will have noticed the amount of information posters around. Over the years this has become more main stream advertising, but Lo…
Visiting the National Tramway Museum at Crich Tramway Village will take you back to when trams were a common sight in Britain's cities, and you can experience a tram ride for yourself.
'London’s Tramways: Guildhall Museum by Tramway to the City. Colour lithograph poster. Designed by James Fitton. Issued by London County Council Tramways, c.1925.
This book provides a history of London’s trams from 1861 to the opening of the Docklands Light Railway and Croydon Tramlink.
This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.
This colourful illustration was issued by the then municipal London County Council Tramways to publicise the re-opening of the subterranean Kingsway tram subway in 1931. It had been reconstructed to take double-deck trams. The subway ran from Theobolds Road to the Embankment, under Waterloo Bridge, and there were two tram 'stations' - at Holborn and Aldwych. It was an essential link between the vast tram network north and south of the Thames that would otherwise have been, effectively, severed due to the refusal of the inner London Councils at the time to countenance street running of tramways. The poster shows both tram stations, the street above and the trams - 'Pullman' rather cheekily referred to the refurbishment of trams the LCC carried out - with upholstered seats - to make them less basic in comparison with the rapidly developing motor bus! The artwork was also used as the cover for a booklet at the time.
Blackpool Tramway 'Standard' 147 waits at Pleasure Beach, before working another run to Bispham. 01/04/2013
One of the familiar sights on the city's busses gradually started dissapearing by the early seventies as "pay the Driver" was introduced and the rear entrance busses were replaced.
Famous eggs of Grenoble. This cable car brings you up to "La Bastille".
