Now the project is simple, take an image of a building we all love and turn it into the style of poster which was popular in the middle decades of the last century.*
Today it is a pillbox, one of those hastily built forms of defence which sprang up everywhere at the beginning of the last war.
They could be found around our coasts, at crossroads and other strategic locations.
Within a year they had become as familiar and common place as the barrage balloons, and air raid shelters.
At the time I doubt they would have been in a poster campaign, but given this series is about what might have been, I suggested to Peter that his photograph of the pillbox at Litherman’s Bridge would be perfect.
We kicked around various ideas including the theme of preserving our heritage, even if the building in question was a humble concrete pillbox and not a stately home or ruined castle.
But Peter came back with a turn on their original purpose and I think that works just well.
Location; Turton
Painting; Pillbox at Turton, © 2018 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures
Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
*Posters from the Past, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Posters%20from%20the%20Past
They could be found around our coasts, at crossroads and other strategic locations.
Within a year they had become as familiar and common place as the barrage balloons, and air raid shelters.
At the time I doubt they would have been in a poster campaign, but given this series is about what might have been, I suggested to Peter that his photograph of the pillbox at Litherman’s Bridge would be perfect.
We kicked around various ideas including the theme of preserving our heritage, even if the building in question was a humble concrete pillbox and not a stately home or ruined castle.
But Peter came back with a turn on their original purpose and I think that works just well.
Location; Turton
Painting; Pillbox at Turton, © 2018 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures
Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
*Posters from the Past, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Posters%20from%20the%20Past
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