1920s Southern Railway Poster - Canterbury

Heritage poster reprints are much admired as decoration on otherwise drab wall spaces both in the home and at the office. Here is just one example from my site showing wall posters old and new: England old and new on Posters. Both heritage posters and newer ones can help retain pleasant memories of beautiful places we explored earlier in our life, prepare us for countries we would like to travel to at some time in the future - or in the case of many heritage posters recall a little of what things were like in decades, or centuries past.

On my "old posters" site I am currently focusing on old railway posters showing towns and cities all around England. Many of these date from the age of the steam engine. Posters also frequently illustrate an era in which Britain's coastal resorts were at their height. inexpensive flights to foreign subshine did not exist, and people spent their holidays nearer home. A great deal of creativity and art went into marketing and advertising both coastal and inland holiday resorts.

Here you will find a recent example from the site:

Canterbury first got a mainline railway station in 1846 when the South Eastern Railway launched its services to Ashford. The Southern Railway, to which the railway poster here relates, was created at the time of the 1923 rationalisation of the railways in Britain, known as "The Grouping". Several small railway companies were merged, including the South Eastern & Chatham railway, which itself had been formed by the coming together in 1899 of the original South Eastern Railway company with the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. The Southern Railway was nationalised in 1948, becoming the Southern Region of British Railways. Today, following privatisation, there is once again a "So

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