"L.N.E.R. - Skegness Is So Bracing, 1908" A4 Glossy Vintage Railway Poster Art Print

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Hassall’s immense workload meant he often recycled ideas and many illustrations seem to mirror his own family life. Dating back to the 1910s, this Donald McGill creation captures the essence of British coastal humor. Hassall was paid 12 Guineas for his work, and the original painting hangs in the town hall at Skegness. Please note, working days are classed as Monday to Friday only, excluding UK Bank Holidays and Public Holidays for UK deliveries.

It’s widely considered to have put Skegness well and truly on the map attracting significant numbers of tourists to the seaside town. His first wife, Isabella, had died in childbirth in 1900, leaving him a widower with three young children under four, Dorothy, Ian and Isabel. The fisherman has been replaced by a flame-haired woman in a red bathing costume, who (it would) appear has had a few sherries. With her hair tied up jauntily and skipping along the beach, our ginger-haired protagonist adds an element of silliness and fun to this delightful lampooning of Skegness. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here.In some cases certain artefacts and age-related marks may have been left to preserve the vintage feel of the original print.

In this hilarious parody of the iconic Jolly Fisherman poster, created by artist John Hassall in 1908 for the Great Northern Railway, we are transported to a seaside scene that is both whimsical and bracing. If John Hassall was king of poster artists, then Donald McGill was undoubtedly king of the saucy seaside postcard. Your walk is now complete as you head down Tower Esplanade and back to the lifeboat station where you first started. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.To relieve public apprehension about using the joint system, they promoted a new map that enabled people to find their way around the city. Nonetheless, Ruth was able to clean and repair Skegness, replacing the old repairs much more sensitively and consolidating the surface (to stop any more flaking). He is smoking a pipe and skipping along a beach with small puddles of sea-water and a starfish on it. This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. Explore the pleasures and pastimes of the British seaside through these classic posters, charting the history of holidays at home.

These digitally enhanced posters are professionally printed with fade resistant inks on to a thick 300gsm silk poster card. Poster prints are budget friendly enlarged prints in standard poster paper sizes (A0, A1, A2, A3 etc). This print from Mary Evans Picture Library transports us back in time to an era when laughter was abundant on seaside holidays. Whilst poster paper is sometimes thinner and less durable than our other paper types, they are still ok for framing and should last many years. Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.

It is regarded as one of the most famous holiday advertisements of all time and is believed to have influenced the success of Skegness, Lincolnshire as a holiday destination. This is why we leave some small imperfections or marks that were part of the original poster to enhance the vintage feel. Sozzled or not, our spirited bather brings joy and amusement through her lighthearted antics on the sandy shores of Skegness.