Riding

See It On A Postcard's  Thursday Postcard Hunt is looking at Colourful Vehicles

Everybody Razzle Dazzle 2015 -  Design - Peter Blake

The 2015 Liverpool Biennial used the centenary of WW1 and its theme. One of the pieces of art was the transformation of the Mersey ferry Snowdrop.  It was pop artist Peter Blake's riff on the black and white dazzle painting of boats in WW1 intended to confuse the enemy. Although the Razzle Dazzle was only originally to last for two years it has become an attraction in itself. When I was last in Liverpool a couple of years ago she was still carrying its colours as passengers travelled across the Mersey from Pier Head to Seacombe and back. (Short video of the painting)

The more muted tones of of a London tram built in 1911 and modernised in 1938 in the Depot Yard of the National Tram Museum part of Critch Tramway village. As they say 'a grand day out' with tram rides, woodland walks and a historic pub. The Palm Toffee on the advert board was a break your teeth slab or bar of hard toffee with various flavours running through the middle, one of these being banana, the colour as vivid as the banner. They stopped making it in the 1970s.

Southern Railway 4-6-2 'City of Wells'

Still on the rails of a different kind the City of Wells built in 1945 and withdrawn from service in 1964 and rescued from the scrap yard by the  Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in 1971. Following restoration work it return to the rails in 1979 as seen here in West Yorkshire, or as they like to advertise it 'A Journey Through Bronte Country'.  Not all hyperbole as a package was dispatched from Keithley Station in 1847 to a publisher in London resulting in the publication that year of Jane Eyre.