Striking image of a Phoenix for #ChristmasColours

Foretold that @whitchurchhospital.bsky.social continues to rise from the ashes of closure, to share it's distinguished history.

East 2A art group, created for the End of an Era exhibition in 2016

Some hospital equipment used in the End of an Era exhibition in 2016

The Pharmacy display for the End of an Era exhibition in 2016

The Pharmacy display showing some colourful books for the End of an Era exhibition in 2016

Today’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
is #ChristmasColours

Tricky, as yet we haven’t got a colour photo of the beautiful hall at Christmas in the collection.

So here are a selection of colour from past exhibitions and archives…

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The Heaton Review : Vol. IV : 1931 : Heaton Parish Church, Bradford, West Yorkshire : 1931 : Printers; Percy Lund Humphries : cover : Claud Lovat Fraser. From 1927, for a few years, one of the most remarkable Parish magazines ever issued appeared from the Heaton Parish Church in Bradford. Noted as being "an effort to answer one of the demands made by the World Call to the Church, viz, - that of keeping touch with those whom we still regard as our fellow-parishioners", edited locally and fortunately printed by the renowned printers of Percy Lund, Humphries who were based in the city, the Review rapidly rose in stature. Major local, national and international figures, authors and artists provided forwords, articles and illustrations; later issues are a remarkable conucopia of art and literature even as the Review available by subscription or from local bookshops and stalls, sold for 2/6d (12.5p). Volume 4 from 1931 is no exception. The forword is by John Galsworthy and the first article, on Bradford, is by no less than the city's literary giant, J.B. Priestley. The covers show an illustration by Claud Lovat Fraser (1890 - 1921), a remarkable artist and this illustration was originally for one of a series of Christmas cards, this being The Festival of Christmas, issued by Lund Humphries in 1921. It shows three figures, a masked hatted figure wearing a black cloak, preceeded by a garlanded man with a white beard wearing a pink leopard spotted cloak, and another figure with a laurel wreath head-dress and an orange/black tiger striped garment. There are other illustrations such as landscapes and portraits by artists as varied as Alan Gwynne-Jones, Jacob Kramer, W.F. Briggs and Frederick Lawson. The Review also contains adverts for local concerns and shops all set in various typefaces by Lund Humphries.

A colourful Christmas card design, by artist Claud Lovat Fraser, originally issued by Lund Humphries in 1921, & re-used here on the cover of a 1931 issue of the remarkable Bradford parish journal "The Heaton Review". #ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasColours @arascot.bsky.social

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A really nice oldy-style painting of a soldier with blue trousers, a red, cropped jacket, a million buttons and those fun shoulder tassle thingies, topped with a really fancy hat with a massive white feather. Proper class. He also has a sword, spurs, and shiny shoes.

Ooo #ChristmasColours is the phrase of the day 😍 And here, dressed like the little drummer boy himself (because every women with a newborn wants a child to play drums in the nursery...) is an Officer of the Royal Waggon Train. Festive and fetching.

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Well you don't get more christmassy than our carol service in Glasgow Cathedral. This year it took place on Dec 12th. Photos will follow but for now some snaps from 2024 with the fab & talented children from St Mungo's Primary.

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Fire Engine image is excellent with its red #ChristmasColours

We've been adding some #ChristmasColours to our searchroom pictures. Which one is your favourite? 🧵
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First we have a lovely bit of gold on the Keillers poster from 1897.

This little skier is rocking their #ChristmasColours !

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Stayed tuned as we'll be posting a couple more tree decorations over the next week

Front cover of the 1888 Christmas edition of the Victorian magazine 'The Cyclist', incorporating a year book for 1889 (document reference: MSS.328/C/5/CYCX/5). The illustration on the front cover is of a reclining gorilla in a pair of red pants, painting a landscape that is visible through a massive arch decorated with images of ancient Egyptian figures riding bicycles and tricycles. The landscape through the arch is a post-apocalyptic swamp which contains some broken pillars and the dome of St Paul's Cathedral. A red sun is either rising or setting behind the swampy view. The caption on the front cover reads 'Professor Gorilla's report being the Cyclist 'Xmas No. for 1888 and year book for 1889. Iliffe & Son 98, Fleet St., London & Coventry. Price One Shilling'.

Another entirely normal Victorian Christmas for today's #ArchiveAdventCalendar

The Cyclist in 1888/9 shouts 'Festive' with its vision of Professor Gorilla, dressed only in red pants, painting the #ChristmasColours of a swampy St Paul's Cathedral through an arch decorated with bicycling pharaohs

An elegant fig tree from Elizabeth Blackwell’s Herbal. Rich greens and warm tones give this 18th-century illustration a festive feel—proof that nature always knows its #ChristmasColours.

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Retro illustration of Santa Claus sitting by a chimney, smiling and smoking a cigarette. Text reads: "A great little gift 50 for 7'6," "50 Woodbines," and "the great little cigarette.

#ArchiveAdventCalendar We've been looking for an excuse to share this brightly coloured advertisement that was displayed in a Barnsley post office - A smoking Santa, how times have changed! #ChristmasColours

Hand drawn poster illustrated in colour pencil. In the centre is a square outlined in red with details of a Christmas Social on December 30th 1958, written in a variety of elaborate fonts. To the left is the illustration of a cross outlined in a wide blue border. At the bottom right are green holly leaves with red berries and to the top right is an illustration of mistletoe.

A lovely hand drawn poster full of #ChristmasColours by Loscoe-born artist and illustrator Jack Bronson (d. 2006) for a Christmas Social of a Fellowship Group, possibly at Newthorpe, 1958.

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Five glass pipettes in red, yellow, green, purple and blue. They are standing in a stainless steel holder

It's #ChristmasColours for today's #ArchiveAdventCalendar and these Ballantyne Dropper Pipettes (c1920) look so festive! The pipettes would be used for ophthalmological solutions and are colour-coded for safe selection of topical drugs but we think they'd look lovely hanging on a tree 😆

🎭 Step into a world of #ChristmasColours with Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat. A festive favourite at the theatre and in this beautiful book from 1865 for @arascot.bsky.social's #ArchiveAdventCalendar. #theatrehistory #theatre @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @dmu.ac.uk @librarydmu.bsky.social

Red holly berries brighten this seasonal notice from the Leyton and Leytonstone Chamber of Commerce, from their publication 'Action' in Dec 1934. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasColours @arascot.bsky.social

Godric the crochet stag with a toy Elf, sitting behind various items that are red and green. There are pencils, a staple remover, scissors, weights, a day pass, 3 books, a catalogue, a sign that says Enquiries, and 2 numbered signs used on the microform machines.

Godric and his festive guest (tune in tomorrow to find out more!) have been raiding the archive for #ChristmasColours. They found items like a staple remover, a catalogue, some books from our library and even the sign for our Enquiries desk! #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Poster with NOEL spelled out in red, the negative space between the letters is green. Each letter occupies a square and the letters are laid out so NO is on top of EL

Season's Greetings from Lipson-Jacob Associates
Designer: Stan Brod

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Would you go for Red and Green or Silver and Gold or would you prefer Blue and White. What are your #ChristmasColours #ArchiveAdventCalendar

This picture shows Serle's House in its ‘Christmas Colours’ after heavy snowfall in the 1990s! ❄️
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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 17 is #ChristmasColours. Dunblane Museum has on display armorial shield (in red, green & gold) of Chisholm family of Cromlix, who provided last 3 bishops of Dunblane before Reformation

🚶Visit Dunblane Museum Sats until 20 Dec
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 16 is #ChristmasColours. Red, green & gold at Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library: red lettering & music lines of 1637 edition of “Missale Romanum,” green marbling on cover of 1804 edition of “Scotia depicta,” & gold traces on mitre of cartouche