Ipswich, Suffolk, LNER poster, c 1930s.
© NRM / Pictorial Collection / Science & Society Picture Library
Poster produced for the London & North Eastern Railway, showing Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1471-1530), who was born in the county town of Ipswich and went on to become Lord Chancellor and Chaplain to King Henry VIII (1491-1547). The poster shows Cardinal Wolsey seated in a chair, reading, with a tapestry hanging on the wall behind him. Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Sons Ltd., London WC2.