Richard’s update from the archive

Richard’s update from the archive

Beer towels, drip trays and pump clips from the Navigation Inn, Woodley

One of the recent contacts we had through the website came from Euli Muntal who had come across a box of paperwork and wanted to find a good home for it.

Collected by Evelyn Shepherd from charity shops in and around Macclesfield and donated to the archive is this collection of beer glasses.

Richard’s update from the archive

Richard’s update from the archive

A Scottish Engineer whose idea for a fire extinguisher failed to get financial support in Britain moved to America and in 1907 founded a new company. In 1909 this company became known as the “Pyrene Company of Delaware”…

Richard’s update from the archive

Part 2 of this article on creativity in printed advertising covered the advent of bold imagery up to the early 1930s – including the very important area of motor car advertising, where the value of the car justified the creation of dramatic and enticing advertisements, often in the most expensive publications. In Part 3 we shall look at more of these motor car advertisements in the ‘Golden Age’ of the 1930s, and at the way in which creativity in advertising had to grow up in the challenging years just before and after World War II.