Penarth Dock, South Wales - 150 years - the heritage and legacy  
Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .

Volume Nine - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - More Moments Captured in Time . . .

1932 - Cardiff - The City of Conferences - Go Great Western - GWR .

◊ 1932 - Cardiff - The City of Conferences - Go Great Western - GWR - A postcard edition of a poster held within the National Railway Museum collection at York. [005] The aerial photograph is reprinted from the Western Mail and South Wales News and shows the Castle with the amazingly beautiful Civic Centre and National Museum of Wales beyond. The poster dates from 1932 and Austin Cooper was the artist. Another of the fine postcard and photographic views of Moments Captured in Time from the Penarth Dock Collection. [001] [20180827]

 
c.1932 - GWR Air Services Poster Artwork.

◊ c.1932 - GWR Air Services - A poster held within the Science Museum Group Collection. A painting by artist Pieter Irwin Brown for the Great Western Railway. It depicts a Westland Wessex monoplane flying over a blue map of England and Wales, showing the route between Birmingham, Cardiff and Plymouth airports, including Haldon Aerodrome for connections to Teignmouth and Torquay. [649] [20180827] [Museum Object Number : 1978-1397]

The Cardiff Airport referenced upon the poster was opened as a civilian aerodrome in September 1931 and was originally named Splott, but by 1936 it had been renamed Cardiff Municipal Airport.

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