RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 5, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2014 I thought it might be one of these: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3166/3015514809_24369cb968_o.jpg If it's that one there are two seperate ones top and bottom on the station building wall.A sign for gentlemen in between.Good call. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted April 5, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2014 This is fun But difficult! I thought the dark haired woman between the two benches might be a cigarette ad - there seem to have been many targetted at women in the 30s. But so far no cigar! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trains&armour Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 Added the Mazawattee Tea signs to the drawing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted April 5, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2014 Does anyone else agree that this might say "Players" across the top? I haven't found a Players' poster anything like it though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted April 5, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2014 This is fun But difficult! I thought the dark haired woman between the two benches might be a cigarette ad - there seem to have been many targetted at women in the 30s. But so far no cigar! I thought it might be hair and beauty but just went through nearly 300 pages of a specialist site with no luck. It was quite amusing though. Several ads offering women who had lost their boyfriends by being "too thin" the chance for instant weight gain (!) Many ads suggesting that bad breath would inevitably lead to spinsterhood and two or three suggesting that careers were just things woment who couldn't get husbands did to fill their time. Sing along now "oh the times they are a changing'..........." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted April 5, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5, 2014 A new game? Surely it's spot the rhino. There he is: Spot the rhino.jpg That was an easy one Sierd. And I always thought that Spot was the dog in the Wooden Tops, not a shunting Rhino in Brent. You live 'n' learn. SS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted April 5, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2014 Got a slight shock when I used googles search-from-an-image facility on the one with the bottle surrounded by sunrays. One result was an x-ray of a pelvis with a bottle lodged in it with a caption in portugese relating to risky sexual practices! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cary hill Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 Does anyone else agree that this might say "Players" across the top? I haven't found a Players' poster anything like it though... playersposter.jpg I thought that poster might some sort of short timetable/table of charges from the "block" in the middle,perhaps relating to buses or boats for Salcombe, although that doesn't make much sense on an island platform at Brent. I presume I'm correct in thinking that the poster next along from the Quality Street poster the features a suitcase with two labels? No idea what it's for at the moment,presumably not a resort destination, but too smart for something like PLA - still looking. Premier Fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 presumably not a resort destination, but too smart for something like PLA - still looking. Premier Fox The Palestine Liberation Army, surely that's out of period for ANTB! Jeff. (what have the Romans ever done for us, apart from rhinos?) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 Does anyone else agree that this might say "Players" across the top? I haven't found a Players' poster anything like it though... playersposter.jpg That looks to me like a theatre or cinema poster. It definitely doesn't look like any Players cigarette advertising I have ever come across. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 6, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 I've been offline for a while but can I just thank everybody for their input in this part of my project.Much appreciated.Not easy though is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted April 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 That looks to me like a theatre or cinema poster. It definitely doesn't look like any Players cigarette advertising I have ever come across. There was a Palladium cinema in paignton - see the hoarding under the footbridge on this shot There were Pavillion and Princess theatres in Torquay and the Festival in Paignton Given that it does look to start with a P and F is not that far away from P at that distance Reckon we should share this with Ashcombe on Early Risers, she is local and has thespian leanings. (stop sniggering at the back Spams) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 6, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 Thanks. That's very plausible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted April 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) I thought it might be hair and beauty but just went through nearly 300 pages of a specialist site with no luck. It was quite amusing though. Several ads offering women who had lost their boyfriends by being "too thin" the chance for instant weight gain (!) Many ads suggesting that bad breath would inevitably lead to spinsterhood and two or three suggesting that careers were just things woment who couldn't get husbands did to fill their time. Sing along now "oh the times they are a changing'..........." Amazing how similar the women all look in the adverts from back then. Been looking through loads of adverts for Woman's Own, My Home and such like. They are all Liz Taylor except with longer hair. Wonder what my wife will think if she sees my search history... Edited April 6, 2014 by Mikkel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) There were Pavillion and Princess theatres in Torquay and the Festival in Paignton Given that it does look to start with a P and F is not that far away from P at that distance Reckon we should share this with Ashcombe on Early Risers, she is local and has thespian leanings. (stop sniggering at the back Spams) The Princess theatre in Torquay is still going fairly strong. And I happen to know that Ashcombe & OH were in a theatre audience last night in Paignton, but that one is called Bijou. This afternoon she is rehearsing at Torquay's Little Theatre for "She Stoops to Conquer", which opens next Saturday. As for her leanings....... EDIT - The Bijou is the theatre company performing, the theatre is called the Palace, which fits our need rather well? A further search shows that Paignton Operatic & Dramatic Society have been performing there since 1922, so fine for the GWR era. EDIT EDIT - Wikipedia seems to think the Festival theatre opened in 1967, became a multi-screen cinema in 1999. If so we can forget that. Edited April 6, 2014 by Oldddudders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 6, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 There was a Palladium cinema in paignton - see the hoarding under the footbridge on this shot 1000083_546196882103783_1508737952_n.jpg I wish I had a pound for everytime I crossed that level crossing,by foot and car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 As a youngster I went to the cinema next to Paignton Station one wet day, I think it was to see Peter Pan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 6, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 A rest from advert spotting see's Newton Abbot's and my favourite 45xx 4547 awaiting duties in the Spring sunshine complete with added porthole covers.I think it's sitting right this time Olddudders ! The driver could be Ron Canham according to my 'Kingsbridge Branch' book sources.Well known driver of the period. A bit later the prairie backs onto some cattle vans. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted April 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 Stubby you are wasted designing bogs and vans. Get out a become a resident poet somewhere nice like Mousehole. Brilliant, just brilliant. Quackers. Combine the two - just imagine the eloquent prose that must adorn his own lavatorial walls!... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted April 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 And another thing I don't think Pasties haven't been mentioned for months..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 Combine the two - just imagine the eloquent prose that must adorn his own lavatorial walls!... I'm told the ladies loo graffiti is invariably better - they have both hands free! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 6, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 Pasty joke.JPG I tell you what Captain.You've used Green Scenes Devon Soil textured paint to good effect there Sir. Very authentic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted April 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 I tell you what Captain.You've used Green Scenes Devon Soil textured paint to good effect there Sir. Very authentic. Thanks, I was quite impressed myself, but CTMK is still cursing the day I spilt half a pot on the dining room carpet...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted April 6, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 6, 2014 I'm told the ladies loo graffiti is invariably better - they have both hands free! From the few viewings that I have had of the interiors of the ladies loos, the grafiti tends to be a lot more graphic in detail than the gents, it fair makes you blush. SS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 6, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 From the few viewings that I have had of the interiors of the ladies loos, the grafiti tends to be a lot more graphic in detail than the gents, it fair makes you blush. SS The toilets at Brent will be graffiti free and immaculate.A bit like 4547 shewn here shunting. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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