Category Archives: railway posters

Modern or British?

By crownfolio | Published: August 19, 2010

“It may be clever and modern and progressive.  But it certainly isn’t English.” That’s the incomparable Patrick Wright quoting from a ‘heritage journal’ called This England.  He’s talking about landscape and memory, but it struck a chord with me. Because ever since I wrote about Paul Rennie’s Modern British Posters, I’ve been thinking about the relationship [...]

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Holiday Haunts

By crownfolio | Published: July 16, 2010

Once again, I’m thinking about holidays.  I actually have got round to booking the Crownfolios’ annual fortnight, but two things have brought my mind round to the subject again.  Or to be precise, to Holiday Haunts. This was the railways’ annual guide to hotels, B&Bs, and other such places to stay in Britain, the idea [...]

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Different trains of thought

By crownfolio | Published: April 14, 2010

Another online archive of lovely posters for your education and enlightenment today.  But, nothing is straightforward in this world, so this is another archive with its own quirks and priorities.  Here, though, they’re more understandable, because this archive isn’t meant for the likes of you and me.  It’s the National Railway Museum poster collection, and [...]

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Railway posters vs design

By crownfolio | Published: February 12, 2010

It was a long day, watching the Morphets auction.  And as all of those posters went buy, one after another going for way more than the Crownfolio budget, I found myself getting more and more jaded.  Until, by the end of the auction, I was quite glad that we’d only bought one single lot. It [...]

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