Now the project is simple, take a modern 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.*
In this case it is those iconic cranes at the Quays which long outlasted the docks but eventually were taken down.
I won’t be alone in wishing they had been retained, so in their honour I asked Peter to give them pride of place in another of our Posters from the Past.
Location; Salford
Painting; Come Home to Salford, © 2017 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures, from a photograph by Andrew Simpson, 2012
Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
*Posters from the Past, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Posters%20from%20the%20Past
In this case it is those iconic cranes at the Quays which long outlasted the docks but eventually were taken down.
I won’t be alone in wishing they had been retained, so in their honour I asked Peter to give them pride of place in another of our Posters from the Past.
Location; Salford
Painting; Come Home to Salford, © 2017 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures, from a photograph by Andrew Simpson, 2012
Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
*Posters from the Past, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Posters%20from%20the%20Past
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