Lancashire Gallery

View of docks with SS Duke of Argyll moored alongside a quay, c 1928-1948

Original oil painting by Norman Wilkinson for a London Midland & Scottish Railway poster. Many British railway companies also operated ferry services. Wilkinson was commissioned by several of the companies to produce artwork for use in posters promoting their services. The London Midland & Scottish Railway Company (LMS) was formed in 1923, and operated ferry services across the Irish Sea on routes between Holyhead and Dublin, and Heysham and Belfast. In 1948 all the private railway companies shipping fleets were nationalised, becoming part of the British Transport Commission. The SS Duke of Argyll served the Heysham to Belfast route between 1928 and 1955

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Yachting scene and TSS Duke of Lancaster, 1928-1948

Original oil painting by Norman Wilkinson for a London Midland & Scottish Railway poster. Many British railway companies operated ferry services. Wilkinson was commissioned by several of the companies to produce artwork for use in posters promoting their services. The London Midland & Scottish Railway Company (LMS) was formed in 1923, and operated ferries across the Irish Sea on routes between Holyhead and Dublin, and Heysham and Belfast. In 1948 all the private railway companies shipping fleets were nationalised, becoming part of the British Transport Commission. The Duke of Lancaster sailed on the Heysham-Belfast route from 1928 until 1956

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Blackpools New Promenades, LMS poster, 1923- 1947

Poster produced for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS), promoting express rail travel to the Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool, showing holiday-makers strolling on the new seafront promenades, with Blackpool Tower and pier in the background. Artwork by Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986). Bonestell later became known as the father of space art, creating photorealistic paintings and contributing to the beginnings of the USA space programme in the 1940s and 1950s. Printed by McCorquodale & Co Ltd

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