The story of Keep Calm and Carry On…
You may, like me, have to force yourself to keep calm whenever you see this overworked wartime mantra, particularly in its many bastardised forms, but this is a sweet little film about the origins of the original poster and the lovely looking bookshop where it was found and brought back, spectacularly, to life…
If you are passionate about mid century design and architecture, you could do an interesting if unglamorous cultural road trip around Scotland to admire the works of Peter Womersely. The Yorkshire born architect contributed edgy and iconic buildings to places such as Selkirk, Coatbridge and Galashiels. Born in 1923, Womersley studied law at Cambridge after serving in the army. One of his first commissions was a sheikh’s palace in Kuwait