Tag Archives: Harry Stevens

A Gay Old Time

By crownfolio | Published: October 26, 2011

I haven’t posted about eBay for a bit, mostly because there hasn’t been anything of note for a while. At last, though, there is something worth a look.  Even if it’s not, in rather too many cases, worth the amount of money they’re asking for it. First out of the blocks is this, which is [...]

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On the buses (and bus stops too)

By crownfolio | Published: March 17, 2011

One of the real joys of writing this blog is getting a response on a subject from People Who Really Know.  So after my post about long thin posters, it was very good to hear from Michael Wickham who gave me a lot more information about where these kind of posters were displayed.  Along with [...]

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Thick and Thin

By crownfolio | Published: March 9, 2011

This has been hanging around on the bookshelves for a bit, waiting to find a home. Which is quite a tricky problem as I can’t exactly roll it up as it’s on card.  Fortunately I’m starting to quite like it where it is; it may be there for a while. The design is by Royston [...]

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History coaching

By crownfolio | Published: January 5, 2011

Happy New Year.  I’ve had flu, so Quad Royal will be easing itself gently into 2011 for the next week or two. Today, I will be mostly reminding you about this. A coach.  Which is advertising The Golden Age of Coach Travel on BBC4 tonight (full details here if you want to know more). I have [...]

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December 11th

By crownfolio | Published: December 11, 2010

We’re still travelling early, we’re still shopping early.  And, above all, we’re definitely posting early. This is by Harry Stevens from 1960.  Very good it is too, but I would just like to raise one point of order.  The pipe.  This isn’t a P.C. objection to the glamourisation of smoking, but a serious technical question. [...]

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Leave your Paddens here

By crownfolio | Published: November 22, 2010

I spy with my little eye… …some Daphne Padden posters for sale.  And I’m rather pleased about it as her work really does deserve more attention and acclaim than it has got so far. The one above is being sold by Elephant and Monkey for £95, but Fears and Kahn have this (for a somewhat more [...]

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