Spend Your Summer Holidays at Blackpool Poster
- publisher:
- London Midland & Scottish Railway Company
- printer:
- Blackpool Gazette & Herald Limited
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Poster, London Midland & Scottish Railway, Spend Your Summer Holidays at Blackpool in June, by an unknown artist, about 1925. Coloured lithograph with text superimposed on a view of the promenade, with Blackpool Tower in the distance. Text box provides details of amusements, with the words "Travel by LMS cheap bookings from this station" below. Printed by Gazette & Herald, Blackpool. Format: double royal.
Posters and eye-catching travel guides were used by railway companies at stations to promote leisure activities, holidays and travel opportunities to passengers waiting for their train. Railway companies regularly commissioned graphic artists to design the posters to make them visually engaging and market attractive things to do by train to encourage more customers.