Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Bovril Charity Competion 1923
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This contest was announced in the Christmas 1923 edition of “The Graphic” magazine - a publication similar in page size and contents to the ...
Friday, 28 August 2026
Industrial Sheffield at Kelham Island
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The city of Sheffield had a great industrial economy based around steel, heavy engineering, cutlery and tool making that declined in the pos...
Friday, 14 August 2026
Natural Peas in Crosspool
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In 2024 a Ghost Sign was revealed in the Sheffield suburb of Crosspool when a large advertising billboard was removed from a gable end at th...
Saturday, 25 July 2026
Harrogate - the wider picture
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The invention of panoramic postcards was a nice but impractical idea. Much effort went into producing often genuinely startling wide angle v...
Monday, 6 July 2026
Eric Fraser - the Masher and the Bathing Belle
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It’s the turn of the egregious Masher and the chaste Bathing Belle today. Perennially camera shy, the Masher was a popular subject for carto...
Tuesday, 30 June 2026
Eric Fraser at the Seaside
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Eric Fraser designed and illustrated this ad for Guinness for publication in the summer of 1951 - the year of the Festival of Britain on Lon...
Thursday, 21 May 2026
“This is not a museum …
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… it’s a conservation and storage facility.” The first words of our guide on a tour of the Hawking Building at the Science and Innovation Pa...
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