Walter E. Spradbery - part 3

Walter Ernest Spradbery was an artist and pacifist. Refusing to take up arms in the First World War, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and became a paramedic and stretcher bearer on the Somme battlefield. Here he earned many citations for bravery including the awarding of a Distinguished Conduct Medal. On the day the Armistice was signed, he wrote from the trenches to his Mother: "Hostilities ceased on all fronts at 11am today. Oh happy mothers, happy sweethearts, happy wives, whose loved ones will come safely back... and those lone souls who have lost their very own; today is too unkind to them - how can they face our joy? 'Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards men' - an unseen choir sings it in our breasts - prompting men to evolve a better world more worthy of our ideals and aspirations. Let us begin." He went on to produce a significant body of work, much of it for London Transport with his famous posters. Married to opera singer, Dorothy d'Orsay, they lived an idyllic existence at their home, 'The Wilderness' in Epping Forest.

This is part 3 of a 4-part series on the works of Walter E. Spradbery: 

c1927 Epping Forest, Beauty Spots in Essex: L.N.E.R.
colour lithograph poster for London Transport
 © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

1928 Southend-on-Sea: Underground
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1928 To Dorking by General Route 70 Daily
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1929 Blackberry Sunday by any General Bus
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1929 Dorking by General Route No. 70 From Mordern Station
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1929 Southend-on-Sea "London's Riviera" By Underground LMS & LNE Railways
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1929 St. James's Park, Hyde Park, Kew Gardens and Regent's Park by Underground
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1929 The General leads the way
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1929 The Hive is Awake - Why is not the City Astir?
By General Bus - A Choice of Routes
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1929 The Hive is Awake...
original artwork

1929 To Epping by General Route 100A Daily
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1929 To Fields everywhere quickly by General
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1929 Virginia Water by General Route No.116B From Hounslow East Station
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1929 Virginia Water by General Route No.116B
original artwork

Dorking (Post sticker here)
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1930 Epping Forest (Post sticker here)
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1930 St. Albans (Post sticker here)
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1930 Windsor (post sticker here)
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1931 Haresfoot Woods: Berkhamsted
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1931 St. Albans and Verulanium
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1931 The Silent Pool
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1932 View of Oxshott Heath, one hundred yards from Station
 Southern Electric
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1933 Birchington: Sun, Sea and Sand
colour lithograph poster 102 x 62 cm

1933 Fall of the Leaf
colour lithograph poster for London Transport 99 x 62 cm

1933 Greenline: Flowers of the Season
colour lithograph poster for Green Line Transport
 101.6 x 63.5 cm

1933 General: Flowers of the Season
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1933 LP-TB: Flowers of the Season
colour lithograph poster

1933 In Knole Park: At London's Service: London Transport
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

Beefield, Farningham: London Transport:
At London's Service
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

Chalfont: London Transport:
At London's Service
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

Harlow Mill: London Transport:
At London's Service
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1934 The Two Mills, Outwood, Surrey:
London Transport: At London's Service
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

before 1934 The Two Mills, Outwood, Surrey
linocut printed in black and green 68 x 51 cm