CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE POSTERS 1930s - CLAUDE BUCKLE

With the advent of the affordable motor car and an extensive network of railways, the 1930s was an era of mass travel. Local Chambers of Commerce and the railway companies worked together to encourage Britons to take short excursions around the country: 

The classic view of central Hereford - the Old Bridge
in the foreground, Cathedral in the background.

A fine view of Ross from the River Wye.
St Mary's Church dominates the background.
The centre of Anglicanism in Herefordshire during the VBCW.

The artist for many of these posters was Claude Buckle (1905 - 1973). For more on Buckle, see HERE and HERE,

Notes

(1). The sharp eyed reader will already have spotted that the Ross-on-Wye poster is sponsored by Great Western Railways ("GWR") while the Hereford poster is sponsored by London Midland & Scottish ("LMS"). Although Hereford Station is traditionally associated with GWR, it was in fact a "shared station" between GWR and LMS. This fact caused a great deal of conflict between both unions and managements at the start of the VBCW. In any event, the start of the VBCW promptly brought the era of "short excursions" (at least on a voluntary, unarmed basis) to an end.