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Jan 1973 RAC guide "Know your Motorways" - info & advice on motorway driving, signs & safety inc. the new "warning signals". A map showing the extent of the then network. @showmeasign.online @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk @roads.org.uk #roads #infrastructure flic.kr/p/2rd8Qke

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Oldham, then in Lancashire, was one of the bus operators who used both letters & numbers for bus routes; these 1963 timetables also show the 'owl symbol', from the coat of arms, adopted by the General Manager who arrived from Liverpool who used a similar symbol with the mythical 'Liver bird'.

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The Medway Bridge on the M.2 motorway : booklet issued detailing the construction of the first Medway Viaduct that opened in 1963 & that subsequently has been modernised & joined by two other spans, one additional motorway, the other for HS1. @roads.org.uk @sabre-roads.org.uk ↘️ flic.kr/p/2rcXwLZ

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Brochure issued to celebrate the Centenary of the Underground in 1963 with a display of historic & modern rolling stock at the Metropolitan's Neasden Depot in May of that year. @version3point1.co.uk @timenw.bsky.social @richardprice.bsky.social @joebrownlondon.bsky.social ↘️ flic.kr/p/2rcXh1n

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'60's airport signs from either side of London. Screenshots from "Look at Life" showing the development of London's 'second' airports - Gatwick, then up & running, & the beginnings of Stansted in Essex - then ex-MoD Nissen huts. #airports #transport #signs

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Showing my age now. Who recalls the 'tanner'? A pre-decimal British 6d coin, dating from 1948 and the reign of George VI. He defended the faith & would be, by the end of the year, no long Emperor of India. From an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London.

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A striking cover to the Railway Gazette's Electric Supplement for 24 June 1938 with artwork by Pat Keely for the Southern Railway's third rail Mid-Sussex and Sussex Coast electrification schemes, part of their large scale modernisation plans. @noeldolphin.bsky.social #railways ↘️ flic.kr/p/6TLSKM

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Who says recycling & reuse is new? 1959 leaflet from Ford Motors of England for reconditioned engines for both recent models & ones dating back to the '30s. Mind you some I know said FORD stood for Fix or Repair Daily or Fix or Return to Dagenham! #recycle #motoring ↘️ flic.kr/p/2rcBVad

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Now That's What I Call Corporate Identity! Still from a video of the K&WVR & preserved BR Class 50 021. @doublearrow64.bsky.social #railways #corporateidentity #graphicdesign (S. Bell/YouTube)

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From a 1960s BBC film on Glasgow's housing redevelopment; a typical Glasgow road scene followed by the arrival at the burgh boundary of East Kilbride New Town, one of the city's various overspill towns across Scotland. @pastglasgow.co.uk @c20society.bsky.social #housing @municipaldreams.bsky.social

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On this day, 22 June 1907, the 'final link' in the Yerkes group of London Underground lines was formally opened; the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway - now the CX branch of the Northern line. #london #railways ↘️ flic.kr/p/2pYKv8r

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@doublearrow64.bsky.social - a'bruised' sign, well - it's black and blue ...

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From a 1965 news report on the comprehensive redevelopment of the Birmingham inner city suburb of Ladywood - one of the city's smart & simple standard district name signs. I often wish I could have 'acquired' one of these! An Atkinson's boozer as well. @lccmunicipal.bsky.social @showmeasign.online

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Front cover, by "Berger", to the October 1935 issue of "Shelf Appeal", the journal of packaging, display & advertising and that in this issue considered the cost and effectiveness of radio advertising. As here in the UK the BBC had a monopoly, this involved overseas stations. ↘️ flic.kr/p/2rc9tQp

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Good night from Otley. West Yorkshire. #evening #summer #sunset #sky

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A rather fine c.1898 catalogue of printer's "Modern Vignettes & Ornaments" from the Leipzig typefoundry of J.G. Schelter & Giesecke. Many of the designs have an 'arts & crafts' feel as well as hinting at the Jugendstil movement. #printing #graphicdesign #germany ↘️ flic.kr/p/2rbZxoU

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BVG West - Berlin blickpunkt see Welt : BVG Verkehrsführer : c.1955 tourist transport information folder.

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A fine colour advert for a colour printers : Hudson Scott, the Carlisle based manufacturer of packaging & printers of publicity was part of Metal Box. It features examples of contemporary biscuits, drinks & cleaning products. #graphicdesign #packaging #history ↘️ flic.kr/p/2rauSDi

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Suitably road sign-ish : booklet I wrote & asked for age 12 as the M5/M6 motorway was being built near our house in Great Barr. Describes the major works of the Midlands Links Motorways from 1968 & that mostly opened 1970-72. @roads.org.uk @showmeasign.online @sabre-roads.org.uk flic.kr/p/2rauS6x

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Summer cycling over forest trails. North Yorkshire. #cycling #nature #landscape #fitness #yorkshire

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Where to go and how - a 1935 guide to Liverpool by the city's Corporation Passenger Transport Dept and with a fine pictorial map (borrowed from the Parks Dept!) showing the city's then expanding tramway & motor bus system. #ransport #Liverpool ↘️ flic.kr/p/2rahbUR

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A fascinating album of the vehicles of Remploy Ltd - the then Government backed company set up to help persons with disabilities into work & showing the changing corporate identity used. #graphicdesign @doublearrow64.bsky.social @designreviewed.com @designarchives.bsky.social flic.kr/s/aHsk5NyufS

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An Edgware Rd connection @timenw.bsky.social but - apparently used "to transport melton cloth and other raw materials for the production of Donkey Jackets at Remploy's Bolton, Salford, Wallasey and Wigan factory's." @groomb.bsky.social flic.kr/p/2qyV5oL

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Oh goodness - where has this appeared from? Me, all in orange, back in the day when I was obvs officially gay enough to be gay! London Mardi Gras 2003 - there officially for the first time under the union & TfL banner from memory. 🏳️‍🌈 #history

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Screenshot from a c.1968 documentary on constructing London Underground's Victoria line - removal of the steel umbrella from Oxford Circus with a 'straight on' traffic sign. @showmeasign.online

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Glorious seaside resort by Edward Clarke on this c.1960 poster for Eastern National Express Coach Services; he Chelmsford based bus & coach operator had various routes linking London with Essex seaside resorts & rural towns. @seasideferry.bsky.social #seaside #travel #essex ↘️ flic.kr/p/2ra4sXy

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