Picture Map Of London Daily Telegraph

Original vintage map poster - The Daily Telegraph Picture Map of London - featuring a colourful mid-century pictorial map of landmark buildings, museums and galleries, historic places of interest, train stations, notable people, the main streets in the centre of town, universities and medical schools, gardens and parks spanning the area from Lord's Cricket Ground and London Zoo in Regent's Park in the north, Guy's Hospital and the Tower of London in the east, the Natural History Museum and Hyde Park in the west, and the Imperial War Museum and Westminster Abbey in the south including illustrations of Buckingham Palace, Nelson's Column, the Royal Festival Hall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Houses of Parliament with the bridges shown from Lambeth Bridge to Tower Bridge and boats on the River Thames and red tube carriages marking London Underground stations, all framed by images of London types and characters including Beefeaters and Royal Guards, a Pearly King and Queen dancing, an iconic red London bus, cyclists, school children in uniform, a flower seller, shoe cleaner, fireman, a child on roller skates, horse drawn carts, a milkman and a policeman with the title in a scroll above. The Daily Telegraph newspaper was founded in 1855. Copyright Geographia, London. Designed and executed by Vale Studios Ltd. Horizontal. Good condition, pinholes, tears, staining, creasing.