Just time for a quick post before I hit the sack. I was writing a letter this evening and decided to embellish my handwriting a little by getting a little giddy to some 1920′s music hall jazz (possibly as some sort of legacy from my last post). I came across a suitable compilation called That’s [...]

East London was once awash with small theatres and music halls crammed in between bond warehouses and tight streets to keep the restless populace entertained and marginally sane. Indeed, the East-end has been London’s theatre fulcrum since well beyond the Victorian times. Indeed, the crossover from public house, to supper-club, to music hall was all [...]

Just a short post here, but I thought it was worth while. I was trawling through some flickr links this morning and I randomly came across some sets from flickr user ‘Least Wanted‘. There’s a whole jumble of interesting images in there, (most of them scanned in from other material), but what appealed to me [...]

A couple of weeks ago, myself and a few foolhardy friends embarked on the Real Ale Train at Alton for it’s bi-monthly, ale-addled chug through the Hampshire countryside. The weather was warm and damp and the air thick with the dry fruitiness of second-hand hops. The Real Ale Train is part of the Watercress line [...]

Following on from my post some time ago about the functionally attractive German municipal typefaces, I thought I would post a link to a short but comprehensive history of one of the main families called DIN. There is something about this typeface that still does it for me. Whether it’s on the front of a [...]

As promised, I thought I would share more of the delights that I legitimately pillaged from the book-fairs I attended at the weekend. In particular, I thought I would maintain the theme of post-war travel ephemera; especially as I have already posted on the wonders of old P&O menu design and Dorrit Dekk’s print work [...]

I don’t usually spend my Sundays afternoons in the basement of musty hotels, especially when it’s rather sunny outside, but this sunday was a wee bit different. I attended a couple of book fairs this weekend in the hope of picking up some botanical books or some old graphics publications. I’m a bit of amateur [...]

Modernist train stations in London are not common. There are some though and those that have remained relatively unfettled with, are absolute beauties. Surbiton train station (zone 6 – near Kingston) is perhaps the finest example that I have had the good fortune to take a train from. The station as we currently know it, [...]