Title – The Northumberland Coast.
Artist - Dr Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion (1900-1981).
Description - A simple view of a selection of wild birds which are to be seen along the expansive Northumberland coast, with artwork by the great bird artrist Eric Ennion.
Year Published - 1961
Size - Double Royal (approx 40 x 25in or 101.5 x 63.5cm)
Other Details:
Original Vintage British Railways Travel Poster.
Published by British Railways (North Eastern Region) P1/61
Printed in England by Chorley and Pickersgill Ltd, Leeds
Condition Grade and Condition Report:
Grade: A-, un-conserved.
Folds only. More detailed photos are available on request if required.
More About The Artist:
Eric Ennion was an artist, author, illustrator and radio presenter on natural history subject, specialising in birds.
He was born in Kettering in 1900, the son of a doctor. He attended Caius College Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital before working as a GP for 20 years in Burwell, Cambridgeshire.
He was always fascinated by birds, and in 1945 he sold the medical practice and became warden at the Field Studies Council's Flatford Mill Field Centre, and then in 1950 he and his wife founded the Monk's House Bird Observatory at Seahouses, Northumberland.
