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Vintage pub photos From Quirky PrintsVintage pub photos provide an enduring reminder of this great British institution. Visitors to our shores frequently comment that there is nothing quite like the English pub to be found anywhere else in the world. Pubs that still do business at a local 'community' level are very much part of the social fabric. They are a place to meet friends and neighbours, a focal point for various community activities, and a source of local information and contacts. Indeed, many of us have a special fondness for the village pub – or for a particular pub we have visited and enjoyed. Recognising the quirky appeal of pubs and breweries, the Quirky Prints team felt they just had to include some vintage pub photos on their new website. The search for suitable old black and white photographs, took them to hundreds of antique shops, collectors’ fairs, vintage photograph dealers and specialists around the country. The resulting collection is literally thousands of hand picked vintage photographs, on all manner of topics, including landscapes, people, shops, far flung civilizations and transport from years ago. And amongst the numerous old black and white photographs, hand coloured and sepia photographs that were collected, were some fascinating and quirky vintage pub photos from years gone by. Within the dedicated PUBS & BREWERIES category on their website, Quirky Prints offers a selection of these unique vintage photographs. Old wooden beer kegs are loaded onto horse drawn carts, smart barmen pose behind the gleaming brass pumps of their pub, and tiny local pubs, which were the heart of the community, are caught on camera. All are captured in evocative colour or black and white photographic detail. These old, forgotten, but delightful vintage photographs, make stunning framed pictures. They become unique artworks, which can be hung in our homes, or bought as original and imaginative gifts for friends. No matter that we know nothing of the people or places in these old black and white photographs, hand coloured and sepia photographs. They are moments frozen in time. Pictures with their own unique story to tell. And they have as much meaning and resonance with us today, as they had for those involved in creating the vintage photograph all those years ago. The original Vintage pub photos are all reproduced on finest grade, heavyweight art paper, to preserve all the fine detail and quality of the image. They are then enlarged and presented in contemporary metal frames, which have been carefully chosen both to enhance the images and to complement any style of home décor. For anyone who is completely uninspired and bored with the same prints offered for sale in the high street – those thousands of similar pictures that appear in thousands of homes across the UK - Quirky Prints offers something new, some different. Something Quirky in fact! There are thirty two other categories to choose from on the Quirky Prints website - from Agriculture to World War II – with literally thousands of images taken from original vintage photographs. Each of the old black and white photographs has been carefully restored to remove any damage, but preserve the originality of the image. Others have been painstakingly hand coloured or had their original colours restored. The result is a remarkable visual time capsule of years gone by. Within the collection of vintage pub photos on the Quirky Prints website, we can raise a glass to the pubs and breweries, that gave a cheery welcome to generations in years gone by! |
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