Cook Gallery

A Cooks Ticket will take you anywhere

A poster or handbill advertising the fact that a Cook's ticket will take you anywhere on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, or round the world. Showing a group of Edwardian people standing on a red platform around a large globe, looking at the outlines of countries on it and deciding where they would like to go

© Thomas Cook Archive/Mary Evans Picture Library

Design by Bruce Bairnsfather

Design by the famous World War I Bystander cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather for what looks like a club or restaurant menu or invitation. A chef with a ruddy face and satisfied smile says, "Well, if yer knows a Better Club go to it, " which is a reference or homage to Bairnsfather's most famous cartoon from the Bystander which depicts two miserable soldiers in a shell hole with the line, "Well, if you knows a better ole, go to it"

© Mary Evans Picture Library/ONSLOW AUCTIONS LIMITED

Inside the Dome of Discovery, Festival of Britain, London

General view inside the Dome of Discovery, part of the Festival of Britain site on the South Bank, London. This part of the exhibition covered Britain's conquest of the physical world through exploration and science. At the time this huge aluminium dome was the largest in the world, with a diameter of 365 feet. It contained several stairs and an escalator, a large telescope, a totem pole, and a model of the stern of Captain Cook's ship, the Endeavour.
early 1951

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans