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Welwyn Garden City, railway poster, c 1930s

Welwyn Garden City, A Greatly Improved Train Service to King's Cross'. Poster promoting Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire as a commuter town, showing a clock design superimposed onto stylised locomotives. The text includes rental and purchase prices of homes (up to £2, 000 for a house). The town was founded by social reformer and pioneer of town planning, Ebenezer Howerd (1850-1928) in 1920 with the aim of easing overpopulation in London. Artwork by C W Bacon. Printed by the Dangerfield Printing Co Ltd, London. Dimensions: 1016mm x 635mm

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Suffolk - Monks Eleigh (near Lavenham), c 1950s

Original oil painting for British Railways (Eastern Region) poster by Leonard Russell Squirrell (b 1893), showing a view of the village green at Monks Eleigh, in Suffolk, where villagers are obtaining water from a pump. A church is shown in the background

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