Thursday, 16 September 2010

National Savings poster, 1970s

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The artist here was Angus Rands (1922-85), a native of Ilkley whose mode of work was portraits of life in Yorkshire and the Dales. The point...
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Friday, 10 September 2010

Rail poster for ramblers, 1936

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This is the most colourful of the posters we have acquired through the project to date. It is the summer number in a series of four - one fo...
Thursday, 2 September 2010

Bourton Model Village souvenirs, 1950s

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The Model Village as a tourist attraction first appeared during the interwar years and in the 1950s and 1960s became a popular addition to m...
Thursday, 26 August 2010

Traffic LP 'Mr Fantasy', 1967

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The reason for the inclusion of this item is that when Steve Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in 1967 to form a new band Traffic he, alo...
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Thursday, 19 August 2010

Norman Neasom watercolour, 1954

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A Fordson Major and seed drill chug their way across the red West Midlands soil in the shadow of Bredon Hill. The date is April 1954, the ti...
Thursday, 12 August 2010

Chapel chair by Alan Peters, 1977

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Alan Peters (1933-2009) was commissioned to make the furniture and Peter Tysoe - the Devon-based glass sculptor - the coloured glass window ...
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Thursday, 22 July 2010

Ladderback chair by Edward Gardiner, 1950

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Made of ash and with a rush seat, this is a chair with important connections that place it firmly within a continuing tradition of English c...
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Thursday, 15 July 2010

Plant pot by Quentin Bell, 1951

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Here's something from another equally well-connected twentieth century potter. Quentin Bell (1910-1996), product of the unconventional m...
Thursday, 8 July 2010

Stoneware bowl by Ursula Mommens, c.1995

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I thought the project should include a piece by Ursula Mommens (1908-2010) who spent most of her long adult life - she died earlier this yea...
Thursday, 1 July 2010

Stanley Anderson line engraving, 1934

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We have taken the opportunity to add to our collection of engravings by Stanley Anderson (1884-1966). This one is entitled Sheep Dipping an...
Thursday, 24 June 2010

The Battle for Middle Oak, 1996

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In complete contrast, and thirty years after that bright optimism of The Open Road (see previous post), Middle Oak is testament to the deep...
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Thursday, 17 June 2010

The Open Road, 1962

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The same team of Lampitt and Deverson that produced The Map that came to Life in 1948 came up with The Open Road fourteen years later. It...
Thursday, 10 June 2010

The Map that came to Life, 1948

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This is a children's book that captures the essence of what the countryside meant to post-War England. Ours has a hand-written dedicatio...