Fresh Air for Health
Poster, Southern Railway, 'Fresh Air for Health' by H Alker Tripp, 1937. Depicts a ploughman with a team of two horses in open countryside, beneath a changing sky with sunshine, clouds and an approaching rain shower. Accompanying text reads "Ask for programme of 'Go as you please' cheap tickets by Southern Railway" and advertises 'Southern Rambles in Kent and Surrey' and 'Walking at Weekends in Kent, Sussex and Hampshire' by S.P.B. Mais at 6d each. Ref AD 1500/1937. Printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London & Dunstable. Format: quad royal. Full size dimensions including backing: 1060 mm x 1316 mm. Poster dimensions: 40 x 50 inches 1015 x 1267mm.
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: “I'm asthmatic, have POTS (postural tachycardia syndrome) and I'm also trans, so I wear a binder and these things interact in ways that sometimes make going outside into ‘fresh air’ kind of difficult. It's like a knock-on effect: binding affects my breathing, which affects my asthma and then not having enough air in my system can also affect my POTS. So really, being out there wouldn’t make me feel that healthy!”
Details
- Category:
- Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills
- Object Number:
- 1978-9315
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
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overall: 1016 mm x 1270 mm
- type:
- poster