Poster; Far flung our bus routes (map), by MacDonald Gill, 1928

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Reference number	1983/4/2621
Artist	Macdonald Gill
Dates	1928
Collection	Posters
Object type	Poster
Print code	504.2500.3.4.28
Location	Acton Depot
Topics	Decorative Hertfordshire Buckinghamshire Surrey Kent Middlesex Essex City of London Westminster Poems Suburbs
Completeness	89% 89% ?

• Physical description

  Dimensions

  Attribute	Value
  Height	1016mm
  Width	1270mm
  Descriptive size	Quad royal

  Colour

  Attribute	Value
  Colour	Brown

  Item content

  Attribute	Value
  Object title	Far flung our bus routes (map)
  Text	Far flung are our bus routes they here are displayed, they mean nought to you! we are not dismayed, there are thousands of citizens who love the fresh air, hundreds not misers will pay debonair, but they must remember to clear their waste paper, dry bottles and what not at the end of their caper, so there! ...Brentwood...Chipping Ongar... Uxbridge... Chislehurst... Enfield... Chipping Barnet... Barking... Upminster...Cheshunt...St.Albans...Slough...Woking...Watford...Guildford...Reigate...Dartford...Caterham...Croydon...Sweetening the air of Mitcham without stint grow rosemary and lavender, camomile & mint.....Chigwell - the old 'Kings Head Inn' is the original of Dickens' 'Maypole Inn' wherein he wrote Barnaby Rudge.

  Design

  Attribute	Value
  Stylistic influence	Decorative map

• People involved

  Role	Person(s) involved
  Artist	MacDonald Gill, 1928
  Printer	Waterlow & Sons Ltd,
  Publisher	Underground Electric Railways Company Ltd, 1928