Rackhams, Birmingham (UK)

#BrutalistArchitecture #Brutalism #Rackhams #Birmingham #Modernist

An advertisement, a colour illustration - an escalator snaking vertically across the centre with figures positioned on it. Text written along the length of the escalator - How Nice All The Loveliest Things in the World Can Be Found at Rackhams. Lines running horizontal across the advert signifying the floors of a department store. Each slat populated with figures and activity. At the bottom of the advert, text promoting the shop. The word Rackhams in bold print in the bottom right.

#Rackhams - Selling all the ‘loveliest things in the world’, included in the Birmingham Sketch - magazine of the Sporting, Social and Commercial Life of Birmingham, August 1964. Reference - LF 08.2. What are your memories of the shop? #LibraryofBham #houseoffraser