Phil Beard
Friday, 8 August 2025

Ludgate Circus in Illustration and Postcard

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This unsigned illustration comes from an Ernest Nister illustrated children’s book, The Scrapbook of Trains (c.1900). An atmospheric renderi...
Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Insel Sylt

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Sylt is the most northerly island off Germany’s North Sea coast, accessible only by trains that run along the Hindenburgdamm causeway built ...
Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Coldstones Cut

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  Coldstones Quarry is a North Yorkshire limestone quarry almost entirely concealed inside a hill (Greenhow Hill) and unobservable from pass...
Thursday, 26 June 2025

Postcard of the Day No. 115, Saintes, Passarelle du Passage à Niveau

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Saintes is a small town in Charente-Maritime on the railway linking La Rochelle with Bordeaux. A local postcard photographer has succumbed t...
Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Bourneville 1925 Transport

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Another Cadbury brochure published to explain the business of chocolate manufacturing to the general public, based on the notion that the pu...
Monday, 28 April 2025

Berlin - Die Weltstadt Im Licht

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A beautifully printed and presented volume of recently rediscovered photographs of Weimar Berlin - the illuminated city by night. Taken betw...
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