Showing posts with label british. Show all posts
Showing posts with label british. Show all posts
Poster Art: BR
Via Coudal Partners I found the Old Railway Posters Flickr pool and these nice British Railways posters from, I guess, the 50s or possibly the 60s. For better or for worse I've done some retouching just to clean them up a bit. If anyone has the information on who made them and when, I'm interested... (Update 1: we have the information on the bottom poster - see below it - thanks to the very helpful Kickcan & Conkers. I wouldn't be surprised if the top one was made by the same artist in the same year.// Update 2: Crownfolio of the Quad Royal blog has found the information about the top poster - see below it. Thank you!!)
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Art: Peter Blake
ABC Minors, Peter Blake, 1955O SÉCULO PRODIGIOSO: Peter Blake
From Wikipedia: "Sir Peter Thomas Blake, CBE, RDI, (born 25 June 1932, in Dartford, Kent) is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." continue
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Photo: Face of Britain
"This is one of my favourite portraits. It is also my one claim to fame. I sold it back in 1979 to the V&A Museum..."
George Plemper: "In my early days I was employed, at my second school, as a science teacher at Riverside School, Thamesmead. Situtated on the Bexley/London border, it was a relatively new school in a "London" housing estate. " (continue)
Flickr: Face of Britain: Thamesmead, Riverside School, 76-78
via This Isn't Happiness
Article in the Guardian: Back in the picture
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Movies: "The Poor Man's Julie Christie"
Well, I guess a girl can be called a lot worse things. Worse or not they could be called The Battersea Bardot.
Carol White Wikipedia, IMDb, The Britmovie forums
Julie Christie Wikipedia, IMDb, The Britmovie forums
Brigitte Bardot Wikipedia, IMDb
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