Marius Rossillon (1867-1946) created the rotund Michelin brand character, Bibendum in 1898, the same year that the French tyre manufacturer...

The world’s first commercial electric railway opened in 1881 at Lichterfelde in Berlin.  This marked the end of the era of horse drawn stree...

This contest was announced in the Christmas 1923 edition of “The Graphic” magazine - a publication similar in page size and contents to the ...

The city of Sheffield had a great industrial economy based around steel, heavy engineering, cutlery and tool making that declined in the pos...

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...

The invention of panoramic postcards was a nice but impractical idea. Much effort went into producing often genuinely startling wide angle v...

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...