Cranes Gallery
Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items
Choose from 59 pictures in our Cranes collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.
Featured Print
'The Pool from the Roof Garden of the Langbourne Club for City Women', 1920s, (c1935)
'The Pool from the Roof Garden of the Langbourne Club for City Women', 1920s, (c1935). The club, on Fishmonger Hall Street, City of London, opened on 7 July 1925, and provided a place where women who worked in the City could lunch and meet. Here members relax in deck chairs and are served by a waitress in uniform. The view is of the Pool of London section of the River Thames, with Tower Bridge in the distance. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]
© The Print Collector/Heritage Images
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'Hays Wharf, Thames', c1951. Creator: Shirley Markham
'Hay's Wharf, Thames', c1951. Cranes on the south bank of the River Thames in London, used to unload goods. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952. The writer, artist, poet, and illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was one of her tutors, and her style of drawing was also influenced by other British illustrators such as Edward Ardizzone, Quentin Blake and Edward Bawden. Markham spent time in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy, and also visited Rome, sketching classical buildings. After graduating from Central, she worked as a graphic designer, producing book illustrations, cartoons for comics, menus and programmes. She gave up her promising career however when she got married in 1957. Middle-class women at that time were expected to devote their energies to bringing up children and running the home, and despite her obvious talent, she lacked the confidence to return to illustration. Her portfolio remained in the family attic for many years, but now her work is published here for the first time.
© Shirley Markham Collection / Heritage-Images
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Scene of the Terrible Railway Disaster at Salisbury, 1906. Artist: Unknown
Scene of the Terrible Railway Disaster at Salisbury, 1906. The Salisbury rail crash of 1 July 1906, occurred when a London and South Western Railway boat train from Plymouth's Friary railway station to London Waterloo station failed to navigate a very sharp curve at the eastern end of Salisbury railway station. This resulted in the train been completely derailed, smashing into a milk train and a light engine and ultimately killing 28 people. From The Tatler Volume 21 [The Tatler, London, 1906]
© The Print Collector / Heritage-Images
