Brasenose College by Claude Buckle

This is a picture of my college at Oxford, Brasenose, by railway poster art master Claude Buckle (1905-1973). Originally trained as an architect, between 1932 and 1963 he produced dozens of posters for the railways, together with a number of those panoramic pictures that I can remember used to brighten up railway carriages when I was small.

Old Quad at Brasenose offers the finest view in Oxford, looking out over the dome of the Radcliffe Camera and St Mary's, the university church.  Dating from 1509 the third storey of the quad was added in the seventeenth century,

RMS Queen Mary by William McDowell

This poster of the Queen Mary, featuring  a painting  by William McDowell (1888-1950) was produced in 1938 for Cunard.  McDowell started working in the drawing office of  Vickers shipyard in Barrow-in- Furness. He became a full time artist after Word War 1 and worked on commissions for many of the great shipping lines at the time such as Cunard, Union Castle and White Star Line.

I haven't sailed on the Queen Mary (I'm not that old!) but I have had lunch on her!