Becky’s work draws inspiration from the classic railway posters of the 1930s. Her vintage seaside posters are modern and fresh, showing a place off at its best, without the fuss and rush of the modern world.
Let's take a step back in time and celebrate our local history with some beautiful vintage seaside posters.
Scarborough Museums Trust holds a fantastic collection of posters promoting the seaside town dating from the Edwardian period, through the acknowledged heyday of the railway poster in the 1920s and 1930s and onwards to the post-war period and their eventual...
Becky’s work draws inspiration from the classic railway posters of the 1930s. Her vintage seaside posters are modern and fresh, showing a place off at its best, without the fuss and rush of the modern world.
Brighton
~ Laurence Fish (British, 1919-2009), circa 1959
~ Laurence Fish (British, 1919-2009), circa 1956
Book and DVDs about Butlins Holiday Camps at Redcoats Reunited.
Explore the history of holidays at home with these classic British posters
~ John Hassall (British, 1868-1948), circa 1908
~ Stephanie Mackrill
~ H. Forster
~ Charles Pears (British, 1873-1958)
~ Alfred Lambart (British, 1902-1970), circa 1953
Several pubs in the English seaside town of Skegness have had their requests to serve Peroni turned down.
Taking the train might not be much fun any more, especially if you've just paid a small fortune to be crammed into a commuter special that's running half an hour late. But there was a time when the railways were a thing to be celebrated and the train was the only way to see far-flung parts of the country that you'd otherwise never visit. And nothing captures the 20th century's love affair with the railways quite so well as the many posters produced for the rail networks over the years.