Images Dated 25th June 2003

Clevedon - The Gem of Sunny Somerset, GWR poster, 1939

Great Western Railway poster. Artwork by Cusden

© NRM/Pictorial Collection

MAZES - HADSTOCK Photograph of the maze on the gravestone of the artist, Michael Aryton

MAZES - HADSTOCK
Photograph of the maze on the gravestone of the artist, Michael Aryton (who died in 1975), in the burial g rounds of St. Botolph's church, Hadstock. This maze, with raised walls, is constructed in copper. It design recalls Aryton's interest in the story of Daedalus, the Athenian craftsman who is supposed to have designed the maze in Crete, wherein the terrible man-bull (the Minotaur) was imprisoned. Daedalus is famed for the wings he constructed, from feathers and wax, to enable him and his son, Icarus, to escape from the island of Crete. Since the Aryton maze is designed to resemble the shape of a butterfly's wing, it is reasonable to assume that it was intended to recall this idea of flight. A colour image of the Hadstock maze is in the Charles Walker archives

© Charles Walker / Topfoto

Lincolnshire, LNER poster, 1923-1947

Poster produced by London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) to promote rail travel to Lincolnshire. Artwork by Tom Purvis (1888-1957), who rallied for the professionalisation of commercial art. In 1930 he was one of the group of artists who founded the Society of Industrial Artists, which campaigned for improved standards of training for commercial artists in order to broaden their scope of employment. He became one of the first Royal Designers for Industry in 1936

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