Images Dated 25th June 2003

The Road of the Roman, LNER poster, 1930

Poster produced by London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) to promote train services to Newcastle. Artwork by Fred Taylor (1875-1963), who was commissioned in 1930 to design four ceiling paintings for the Underwriting Room at Lloyd's and murals for Reed's Lacquer Room. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and other London galleries and worked for the Empire Marketing Board, LNER, London Transport and several shipping companies

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MAZES - HADSTOCK Photograph of the maze on the gravestone of the artist, Michael Aryton

MAZES - HADSTOCK
Photograph of the maze on the gravestone of the artist, Michael Aryton (who died in 1975), in the burial g rounds of St. Botolph's church, Hadstock. This maze, with raised walls, is constructed in copper. It design recalls Aryton's interest in the story of Daedalus, the Athenian craftsman who is supposed to have designed the maze in Crete, wherein the terrible man-bull (the Minotaur) was imprisoned. Daedalus is famed for the wings he constructed, from feathers and wax, to enable him and his son, Icarus, to escape from the island of Crete. Since the Aryton maze is designed to resemble the shape of a butterfly's wing, it is reasonable to assume that it was intended to recall this idea of flight. A colour image of the Hadstock maze is in the Charles Walker archives

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