Bonfire Night, 1967.
(Did I find the 'guy' disturbing?
I honestly don't remember)

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2022-11-06

John T. Kenney's smug-content-smirk with closed eyes look is easily one of my favorite aesthetics from his time with The Railway Series.

If I somehow ever get faces made for my OCs I want all of them to have variation of these mugs in their repertoires.

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2022-08-10

Ladybird request morning. Request 3

A woolly mammoth, from ‘Stone Age Man in Britain’

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2020-12-30

Other work by the Ladybird artists, part 76.
‘Gallant Old Engine’ (1962)

(#JohnKenney illustrated 31 books for Ladybird and 6 for Rev. W. Awdry’s Railway Series)

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2020-03-09

On this day in history 24th Jan 76 Emperor Hadrian was born, probably in Italica (in modern-day Spain).
That’s all the excuse I need to share a Ladybird picture of a beautiful place.

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2020-01-24

Ladybird book in the spotlight, part 9. The Circus Comes to Town, 1957

(You may not remember this book but it’s one of my earliest memories and and I’m finding it very hard to choose just 4 pictures)

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2019-09-23

Ladybird book pictures on request.
‘The young Florence Nightingale’

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2019-08-23

Ladybird book pictures on request.
Robin Hood (‘The Ambush’ and ‘The Silver Arrow’)

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2019-05-03

On this day 16 Jan 1912, about 15 miles from their goal, Scott and party spotted Amundsen’s flag and realised the race to the Pole was lost

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2019-01-16

950 years ago, 14 October 1066, the Battle of Hastings

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2016-10-14

Fiction and fairy tale Friday, part 9.
The Circus Comes to Town

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2016-09-23