Explore the Home Counties

Poster, London & North Eastern Railway. 'Explore the Home Counties' by Montague B Black, 1936. Artist's impression of map of area north of central London showing railway stations on lines from Marylebone, King's Cross, Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street. Text: Cheap Day Return Tickets by Rail. Helpful booklets - Rambles in Buckhamshire - The Chilterns - Hertfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Epping Forest - Suffolk. Sixpence each from Bookstalls, Booksellers and LNER Offices and Agencies. Format: quad royal. Dimensions: 40 x 50 inches, 101.6 x 127 cm.

Alternative Interpretation – Quote about this artwork from a community member with lived experience of disability, D/deafness and/or neurodivergence. Given as part of the ‘Go as you Please’, Curating for Change, exhibition project: “Seeing that map makes me feel so nostalgic, it reminds me of going to visit my grandparents in Welwyn Garden City as a kid, the excitement of going from Peterborough to see them at the weekends. But funnily, if my assistance wasn’t there at Welwyn when we arrived, my Nan would shout across the line, across the East Coast Mainline, she’d shout across to the other platform, ‘Where’s the ramp?’ or something or other. It was just hilarious, my nan’s reaction, and then someone would always come running!”