I had heard that in the past Ashfield House in Otley had been a school but I’d known of it more as an Hotel and a Tetley’s Brewery Training School prior to its sale in 2002 and conversion into apartments. The Grade 2 listed house dates from 1816 and had Read More →
A splendid scene – hikers high above a Continental river gorge (my money is on the Rhine!) and what a lure for 1937 travellers who wanted to get away for an ‘inexpensive and adventurous holiday with the aid of Youth Hostels’. This booklet, typical of the high quality output of Read More →
A typically bold item of publicity from the London & North Eastern Railway – the cover of a 1938 booklet describing the company’s express freight services – so a pun here on ‘expressing’ itself and the speed of services! In Gill Sans, and showing loco 4771 – the only V2 Read More →
One of a annual series of travel publicity booklets issued by the LNER this, the 1939 London booklet, would turn out effectively to be the last in a long line. When, later in 1939, WW2 broke out such publicity ceased and holiday travel such as promoted by this booklet was Read More →
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