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Ladybird books in the spotlight.
‘Garden Flowers’ (1960)
#JohnLeighPemberton
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Buzzards above the Mawddach Estuary’
#CFTunnicliffe
On #InternationalDogDay, meet the real ‘Pat’ - Peter and Jane’s Irish setter in the Ladybird Key Words readers. This photo is one of artist #HarryWingfield’s reference pictures
“Far out in the bay they can see the sails of little yachts.
Beyond them is a liner sailing westwards, its smoke a dark blur in the sky”
In The Train, 1955
#WCWatson
Ladybird book in the spotlight.
The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen (1968) #RobertLumley
Ladybird wisdom, 1976
“Life would cease without water. Seas and rivers MUST be kept clean” (1976)
#PatOakley
Saturday night TV in the 1970s - summed up in the toy shop (1977)
#MartinAitchison
On this day 16th August 1819 the Peterloo Massacre: cavalry charge on protesters calling for parliamentary reform.
#RogerHall