Helping to get ready for tomorrow’s opening 😊

Ladybird book pictures on request.
The terrifying ‘Goosey Goosey Gander’
#FrankHampson

Other work by the Ladybird artists
A particularly chirpy book cover by #SRBadmin, 1956.
(Hope that bus has excellent brakes)

Pictures that explain things.

'Roots of a tree spread as far below ground as the branches do above'
#DavidPalmer

It’s frock day!
Ladybird book pictures on request.
Cinderella’s three ball dresses.
(1964) #EricWinter

“A branch of flowering lime hangs above the roof”
#CFTunnicliffe#ELGrantWatson

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
The cotton-reel tank/tractor (1966)
#RobertAyton

My Ladybird artists exhibition moves on.
I’m going to be Birkenhead next week, helping set up

On this day in 1903, Marie Skłodowska Curie defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at The Sorbonne.
The committee expressed the view that Curie's findings represented the greatest scientific contribution ever made in a doctoral thesis.
#BHRobinson

Ladybird book pictures on request.
Rapunzel.
Salad from the witch’s garden
#EricWinter

The Strand, 1962
Chosen because it’s one of the first Ladybird images I remember

Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Welsh Hill Farm’
#CFTunnicliffe (1949)

The best thing about a picnic in Ladybird Land is the absence of wasps or dirt
#HarryWingfield

Ladybird wisdom

I do feel Ladybird barely scratched the surface of this topic

#RonaldLampitt (1972)

Before online shopping.
When the delivery of a parcel meant it was probably someone's birthday

#HarryWingfield (1960)

Ah, the cool, half-empty tube …

Browsing through some copies of ‘Practical Householder’ from 1962 and I’m beginning to feel I’m doing life all wrong

“The train driver is a very important person”
(1972) #JohnBerry