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Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting an Egyptian man holding a whip while supporting ox-driven plough and a boy holding a whip. Created by Ralph Stephenson, 1951.

Egyptian Agriculture, Egyptian man holding a whip while supporting ox-driven plough and a boy holding a whip

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951
Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting three Egyptian men, one supporting and two pulling the plough. Created by Ralph Stephenson, 1951

Mural of Egyptian Agriculture, three Egyptian men, one supporting and two pulling the plough

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951
Carriage print, British Railways (London Midland Region), Railway Architecture, Red Hill Tunnels, Trent, by Kenneth Steel.

Railway Architecture - Red Hill Tunnels, Trent

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Painting, oil, by Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis, Travel in 1905, Leek & Manifold Valley Railway narrow gauge train at Wetton Mill, original painting for British Railways (London Midland Region) carriage print, 1951.

Travel in 1905 Leek & Manifold Valley Railway narrow gauge train at Wetton Mill

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Painting, oil on board by Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis. Travel in 1885. Furness Railway steamer Gondola on Lake Coniston. Original painting for British Railways (London Midland Region) carriage print, 1951. Framed and glazed, perspex.

Travel in 1885 Furness Railway steamer "Gondola" on Lake Coniston

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Carriage print, British Railways (London Midland Region), Railway Architecture - Curzon Street Goods Depot, Birmingham, by Claude Buckle.

Railway Architecture - Curzon Street Goods Depot, Birmingham

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Original artwork for the `Eagle' comic featuring the character `Dan Dare'. Gouache and ink on card, 26.5x44cm. Pilot of the Future. Eagle volume 2 no 13, page 1, half board. Artist, Frank Hampson, 1951. Storyline features: plugging an air leak, battle makes gun turret containing Dan Dare and Prof Peabody break loose from main ship

Original artwork for the `Eagle' comic featuring t

Frank Hampson

1951
Painting, oil on board by Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis. Travel in 1870. North London Railway train for Broad Street leaving Richmond. Original artwork for British Railways (London Midland Region) carriage print, 1951. Locomotive No. 12. Framed and glazed, glass.

Travel in 1870 North London Railway train for Broad Street leaving Richmond

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Painting, oil on board by Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis. Travel in 1885. North Staffordshire Railway up Manchester Express near Stoke. Original painting for British Railways (London Midland Region) carriage print, 1951. Framed and glazed (perspex).

Travel in 1885 North Staffordshire Railway up Manchester Express near Stoke

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
BR (LMR) carriage print by C Hamilton Ellis, 1951. Travel in 1915. North Staffordshire Railway train entering Stone Junction.

Travel in 1915 North Staffordshire Railway train entering Stone Junction

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
BR (LMR) carriage print by C Hamilton Ellis, 1951. Travel in 1895. Wirral Railway train on the way to Birkenhead.

Travel in 1895 Wirral Railway train on the way to Birkenhead

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Painting oil on board by Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis. Travel in 1890. West Lancashire Railway train hauled by locomotive Blackburn on the way to Southport. Original painting for British Railways (London Midland Region) carriage print, 1951. Framed and glazed, glass.

Travel in 1890 West Lancashire Railway train, hauled by locomotive "Blackburn"

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
BR (LMR) carriage print. Railway Architecture. Runcorn Bridge by Kenneth Steel.

Railway Architecture - Runcorn Bridge

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Carriage print, British Railways (London Midland Region), Travel in 1840, Old Station at Derby, North Midland Railway, by C Hamilton Ellis, 1951, (trimmed copy, image only).

Travel in 1840 Old Station at Derby, North Midland Railway

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Carriage print, British Railways (London Midland Region), Travel in 1865, West Coast Express hauled by "Large Bloomer" No. 607, by C Hamilton Ellis, 1951. (Trimmed copy, image only).

Travel in 1865 West Coast Express hauled by "Large Bloomer" No. 607 leaving Shugborough tunnel

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
BR (LMR) carriage print by C Hamilton Ellis, 1951. Travel in 1855. Maryport and Carlisle Railway train hauled by Crampton locomotive no 12.

Travel in 1855. Maryport and Carlisle Railway train hauled by Crampton locomotive No. 12

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Carriage print, British Railways (London Midland Region), Railway Architecture, Ditton Viaduct, Lancashire, by Claude Buckle.

Railway Architecture - Ditton Viaduct, Lancashire

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Painting, oil on board by Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis. Travel in 1850. London & North Western Railway 1st and 2nd class train hauled by Crampton locomotive Courier at Sandbach. Original painting for British Railways (London Midland Railway) carriage print, 1951. Framed and glazed, glass.

Travel in 1850. London & North Western Railway 1st and 2nd class train hauled by Crampton locomotive "Courier" at Sandbach

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Painting, oil on board by Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis. Travel in 1895. Wirral Railway train on the way to Birkenhead. Original painting for British Railways (London Midland Region) carriage print, 1951. Framed and glazed, perspex.

Travel in 1895, Wirral Railway train on the way to Birkenhead

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Painting, oil on board by Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis. Travel in 1900. Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway express picking up water on Walkden troughs. Original painting for British Railways (London Midland Region) carriage print, 1951. Framed and glazed, glass.

Travel in 1900, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway express

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Poster, British Railways (Eastern Region), 'The Counties of Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire' by Kenneth Steel, about 1951. Coloured lithograph depicting a map of the two counties, with small illustrations of historic sites, and the coats of arms of the Isle of Ely, Cambridge University and Cambridgeshire. Accompany text reads "Produced by British Railways". Text in bottom margin reads "Published by the Railway Executive (Eastern Region) (P.P.1120), Printed in Great Britain, Jordison and Co. Ltd., London and Middlesbrough". Format double royal.

The Counties of Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

about 1951
Notice. British Railways (Southern Region). Closure of the East Kent Light Railway between Wingham (Canterbury Road) and a point immediately north of Eythorne from 1 March 1951. Blue text on white background. BR (SR) ref: AD6239/B1. Printed by McCorquodale, London, SE. Format: double royal. Dimensions: 40 x 25 inches, 1016 x 635mm.

Closure of the East Kent Light Railway between Wingham (Canterbury Road) and a point immediately north of Eythorne

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1951
Notice. British Railways. Special Announcement. Owing to engineering works between Charing Cross and London Bridge certain trains will terminate and start from London Bridge or Cannon Street....... suspension of service between London and Bromley North, 21 October 1951. Green text on white background. BR ref: AD6328/B2-1/2/111051. Printed by The Baynard Press. Format: double royal. Dimensions: 40 x 25 inches, 1016 x 635mm.

special announcement

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1951
Letter to F G Hole, Marylebone from Gordon yates, Publicity Officer, The Hotels Executive, British Transport re Production of special menu cards. Dated 19th June, 1951.

Letters from the Hotel Executive

Documents

1951
Poster, London Transport, London's River by John Minton, 1951, pair poster (text), blue and red text on yellowy background with river view below, printed by The Baynard Press, 996 x 617mm, copyright London Transport Museum.

London's River

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1951
2 1/2d stamp (used) Commerce and Prosperity [Britannia's head, cornucopia, caduceus] commemorating the Festival of Britain issued in Great Britain 3 May 1951 designed by E Dulac

Commerce and Prosperity

Edmund Dulac

1951
Menu card for Luncheon and a short Luncheon, from Station Hotel Aberdeen, issued by the Hotels Executive

Menu card

Documents

1951
Sample Christmas card from The Hotels Executive, 222 Marylebone Road, London NW1, designed by Howard McClean. "Greetings for Christmas and the New Year" printed on a blue background with a snowflake effect. Inside "1951 with Best Wishes from The Hotels Executive".

greetings for christmas and the new year

Documents

1951
Letter (carbon copy for F G Hole) to Gordon Yates, Marylebone, from E J Davis, Purchasing Officer (Provisions and General Stores) re substitution of paper for card when printing menus as a result of the shortages of pulp board. Dated 3rd October 1951.

menu cards

Documents

1951
Sample Christmas card from The Hotels Executive, 222 Marylebone Road, London NW1, designed by Howard McClean. "Greetings for Christmas and the New Year" printed on a blue background with a snowflake effect. Inside "1951 with Best Wishes from The Hotels Executive".

greetings for christmas and the new year

Documents

1951
Menu card for the Station Hotel, Aberdeen carte du jour for dinner on 17 December 1951. Printed black on white card in French.

station hotel, aberdeen carte du jour

Documents

1951
Poster, British Railways (Railway Executive/North Eastern Region), Hull to Grimsby by Paddle Steamer, 2 examples. Format: double royal. Dimensions: 40 x 25 inches, 1016 x 635mm.

Hull to Grimsby by Paddle Steamer

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1951
Invitation, in French reading Mr. John Elliot president les membres du railway executive prient ... de les honorer de as presence au dejeuner au Grand Hotel Eastbourne le mecredi 6 juin 1951.

Mr. John Elliot president les membres du railway executive prient

Documents

1951
Painting, watercolour, original artwork for railway poster, British Railways (Western Region), Visit Historic Plymouth - The Departure of the Mayflower in 1620 by Gordon Nicholl, 1951.

Visit Historic Plymouth

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Booklet, "Civil Engineering Standard Design 109LB. F.B. Switches and Crossings", 1951. Issued by the British Transport Commission. BR 12802 Pages fastened together in grey card printed cover. Good condition.

Civil Engineering Standard Design 109LB. F.B. Switches and Crossings

Documents

1951
Poster, British Railways (Southern Region), Rugby by Pat Keely, 1951, stock poster. With a small illustration of a man holding a rugby ball.

Rugby untitled

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1951
Sculpture, mural panel illustrating modern agriculture, depicting a man in a tractor. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a man in a tractor

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951
Sculpture. Mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, [1951]. Iron, forged using a unique process; [sight] 8x40 ft. First of a cyclorama frieze of three silhouette scenes of agricultural practice, commissioned for the Science Museum Agriculture Gallery; based on tomb drawings. Parts include digging sticks; man-drawn and ox-drawn ploughs; broadcast of seed

Mural panels illustrating Egyptian Agriculture

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951
Poster, London Transport, Flowers by Ivon Hitchens, 1951, pair poster (image), colourful mixture of various flowers and plants, printed by The Baynard Press, 1012 x 615mm, copyright: London Transport Museum.

Flowers

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1951
Notice. British Railways. Reduction in Train services. The Railways are required to make their contribution to the government's campaign to save coal....from 15 January 1951 certain local and main line trains will be withdrawn. Black text on white background. Printed by McCorquodale, London, NW. Format: double royal. Dimensions: 40 x 25 inches, 1016 x 635mm.

reduction in train services..........

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1951
Letter to F G Hole, Marylebone from Gordon yates, Publicity Officer, The Hotels Executive, British Transport re Production of special menu cards. Dated 6th December, 1950.

Letters from the Hotel Executive

Documents

1951
Poster, British Railways (Southern Region), The Brighton Belle, Timings until 23 September 1951 by A N Wolstenholme. Coloured lithograph train departure notice, with an image of the Brighton Belle electric multiple unit, giving details of train times. Weekdays London Victoria to Brighton dep. 11am arr. 12noon, dep. 3pm arr. 4pm, dep. 7pm arr. 8pm, Sunday dep. 11am arr. 12noon, dep. 7pm arr. 8pm, Brighton to London Victoria dep. 1.25pm. arr. 2.25pm, dep. 5.25pm arr. 6.25pm, dep. 9.25pm arr. 10.25pm, Sunday dep. 5.25pm arr. 6.25pm, dep. 9.25pm arr. 10.25pm. Printer Staffords Netherfield. Format: 40 x 25 inches, 1016 x 635mm.

The Brighton Belle timings until 23 September

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1951
Poster, British Railways (Southern Region), Festival of Britain, Excursions to London from this Station every day - Return by any Train including the New Late Train leaving Victoria at 12 Midnight by F H Coventry, 1951. With a picture of the festival site with lines in and out.

Festival of Britain

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1951
Poster, British Railways (Southern Region), Festival of Britain by F H Coventry, 1951, stock poster. With a colour image of the site as the header.

Festival of Britain

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1951
BR (LMR) carriage print. Railway Architecture. Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire, by Kenneth Steel.

Railway Architecture - Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a bird flying with two small component representing the sky. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a bird flying

Ralph Stephenson Lavers

1951
Carriage print, Railway Architecture - The Entrance to Euston Station, London, by Claude Buckle.

Railway Architecture - The Entrance to Euston Station, London

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
British Railways (London Midland Region) carriage print by C Hamilton Ellis, 1951. Travel in 1845. Express mail train of the London and Birmingham Railway.

Travel in 1845 Express mail train of the London and Birmingham Railway

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
BR (LMR) carriage print. Railway Architecture. Citadel Station, Carlisle, by Kenneth Steel.

Railway Architecture - Citadel Station, Carlisle

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951
BR (LMR) carriage print by C Hamilton Ellis, 1951. Travel in 1880. Midland Railway Express, with Pullman Drawing Room Car, on the way to St Pancras.

Travel in 1880 Midland Railway Express, with Pullman Drawing Room Car, on the way to St Pancras

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951