The Passion of Former Days: London Transport Posters

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12 May, 2014

Go to Kew

High time for a revisit of the amazing poster collections of the London Transport Museum! Posters celebrating flowers and spring are some of the collection's loveliest. Some of my absolute favourites of these are those promoting Kew Gardens, the Royal Botanic Gardens of London (and a truly lovely place; the posters aren't exaggerating!). One of my earliest posts shared a number of great Kew posters; here is another set.

by Emilio Camilio Leopoldo Tafani, 1915. Source

by David Wilson, 1926. Source

by Althea Willoughby, 1933. Source

Snatch Summer's Closing Days

With a few days left of the season, let's enjoy these wonderful summertime posters from London Transport, 1920s and 30s.

From the collections of the London Transport Museum.

Poster by Harold Sandys Williamson, 1933. Source

Poster by L. B. Black, 1926. Source

Poster by Horace Taylor, 1926. Source

London Transport Posters of the 1960s

While the 20s and 30s were a Golden Age of London Transport poster design, these 60s ones certainly have their charms!

Poster by Victor Galbraith, 1960. Source

Eastertide

Sweet Easter posters from London Transport!

Poster by Major, 1931. Source

Poster by an unknown artist. Source

Poster by Charles Sharland, 1913. Source

Poster by H C Aher, 1929. Source

Poster by Frederick Charles Herrick, 1922. Source

Poster by Scott Langley, 1929. Source

Poster by Tom Gentleman, 1932. Source

I have no idea what this has to do with Easter, except that it says 'Easter' in the corner... but it's great. By the Brothers Warbis, 1915. Source

Poster by I Reiner, 1939. Source

Poster by Vera Willoughby, 1935. Source

Poster by Charles Sharland, 1914 (obviously). Source

Poster by Gladys Mary Rees, 1921. Source

Poster by J L, 1925. Source

Poster by Dora M Batty, 1934. Source

13 March, 2012

The West End is Awakening

London Transport suggests we visit the West End, London's entertainment district, for theatres, cinemas, and general going out. 1920s and 30s [except one].

Poster by Ernest Michael Dinkel, 1931. Source

Poster by Harold Sandys Williamson, 1939. Source

Poster by Harold Sandys Williamson. Source

Poster by Stanislaus S. Longley, 1933. Source

Poster by Mary Adshead, 1937. Source

Poster by Victor Hembrow, 1926. Source

Poster by Dora M. Batty, 1925. Source

Poster by Doris Zinkeisen, 1939. Source

Poster by John Farleigh, 1923. Source

Poster by Charles Pears, 1930. Source

Poster by Charles Atkinson, 1933. Source

Poster by Margaret Calkin James, 1929. Source

Poster by Marc Fernand Severin, 1938. Source

Poster by Dora M. Batty, 1925. Source

Poster by Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers, 1935. Source

Poster by Alma Faulkner, 1925. Source

Poster by Verney L. Danvers, 1926. Source

Poster by Charles Pears, 1930. Source

Poster by Molly Moss, 1950. Source

06 March, 2012

Spring Calling, London Listening

Wonderful London Transport posters that can't but cheer you up, whether it's spring or you just wish it was (or you're in the Southern Hemisphere and it's late summer!).