Carlisle, England – Gateway to Scotland, late 1940s
£120.00
AN ORIGINAL vintage poster from the 1940s showing the west tower of the Citadel in Carlisle, the northwest England city close to the border with Scotland.
Size 102cm x 64cm
Condition Excellent. If you would like to know more please get in touch.
Background Carlisle, at the western end of Hadrian's Wall, was for centuries a frontier town, and the Citadel was built in the 16th century to strengthen it. The poster is undated, but must be from 1947-50, the years when the British Tourist and Holidays Board bore that name.
Printer Rembrandt Photogravure Ltd
Publisher Travel Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
