Photo Archive: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”,Blackwells Bookshop, Park Street, Bristol, 27/04/15.

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Alice, Alice in Wonderland, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Book shops, Brillustration, Bristol, English Literature, flemingo, illustration, Lewis Carroll, Mad Hatter, Mad Hatter's tea party, Park Street Bristol, Pink, Queen of Hearts, tea party, tea., window, window shopping.

“It’s always time for tea“.

This depiction of the Hat Hatter’s tea party is by a Bristol based illustrator’s social group called Brillustration and I hope they are still cheering up the shop windows along Park Street, despite Blackwell’s Bookshop relocating since my last visit to Bristol [if this article in the Bristol Post is to be believed].

The Queen of Hearts – “OFF with their heads!”

I have never read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, but of course I’m aware of most of the key features of the plot and I have occasionally found myself, coincidently, following in the author’s footsteps [Lewis Carroll and I have the dodo from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in common for example].

I suppose that is what makes something iconic – when you get recognition with the bare minimum of effort!

Photo Archive: “Ex-Easter Island Head”, Liverpool. 2011.

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band names, Bicycle Thieves, Bicycle Thieves 1948 film, Dire Wolfe, Easter Island Head, Ex-Easter Island Head, illustration, Inside Pages, Liverpool, Moai, Music, poster, The Bido Lito Magazine launch, The Cubical, Toxteth Rebel Alliance, Vittorio De Sica

I must confessed, I haven’t heard any of the bands listed above! It was the use of the Easter Island Head or Moai that caught my attention initially, as these monolithic sculptures have fascinated me for a number of years, but there are some great band names on there to. Bicycle Thieves [surely a reference to the 1948 Vittorio De Sica film of the same name?], The Cubical, Dire Wolfe and Toxteth Rebel Alliance to name only four. Perhaps I should look up some of these bands and have a listen…

Photo Archive: “Mixed Bag at The Masque”, Liverpool, 2011.

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alcoholic beverages, illustration, Ink Bar Liverpool., Klaus, Liverpool, Mixed Bag at the Masque, music venues, night life, poster, Street Art

Raymond Briggs’ “Father Christmas”, Leeds, 21/12/14.

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Christmas, Father Christmas, flask, haversack, illustration, Leeds, Raymond Briggs, Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas, webbing bag, West Yorkshire Playhouse

I have been a fan of Raymond Briggs’ work since the first time I watched The Snowman on television back in the 1980s, so I was very pleased to see Father Christmas with his flask and webbing bag; a bag very similar to the one I take on my adventures! I wont have time to visit the West Yorkshire Playhouse to see Father Christmas, but I’m sure it will be great fun.

Dr. Livingstone (I presume), National Library of Scotland, George VI Bridge, Edinburgh, 22/03/14.

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Africa, black and white, blue, Dr David Livingstone, Edinburgh, explorers, exploring, illustration, National Library of Scotland, Victorian., Victoriana

I wonder if the front of the National Library of Scotland is still boarded up? The blue hoarding, which must have been obscuring some sort of building work, was decorated with illustrations, like this one, depicting the famous Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone.

Mary Queen of Scots, National Library of Scotland, George VI Bridge, Edinburgh, 22/03/14.

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Edinburgh, illustration, letter, letter writing, Mary Queen of Scots, National Library of Scotland, post box, Queen Elizabeth I

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I am no expert, but I’m sure Mary Queen of Scots wrote her last letter well before the invention of the post box; before the invention of the stamp in fact! It is quite a clever illustration, isn’t it? Assuming Mary Queen of Scots did dispatch her last correspondence from Fotheringhay in 1587, as the post box implies. I especially like the monogram of Queen Elizabeth I (of England) on the post box, where the monogram of Queen Elizabeth II would be on a modern one, like the example at the end of my street.

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