1960S/70S Public Awareness Posters

[barry1010]

I am trying to find images of the posters that used to be displayed in shops and outside public buildings warning people of the consequences of shoplifting (mother in tears being led away by police officers and her crying children with a WPC), stranger danger, flying kites near electricity pylons, chip pan fires...

They were beautifully drawn (painted?) in Ladybird book style and very evocative of that time.

Can anyone help?

[ToraToraTora]

just google: "60s public information posters" - lots there.

[ToraToraTora]

This one seemed bizarre ate the time but today it would fit!

https://centaur-wp.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/designweek/prod/content/uploads/2018/11/07135938/lTWP-F0A.jpg

 

[barry1010]

Believe it or not, I tried that, TTT, but I couldn't find the ones I particularly want to see

[Buenchico]

Does anything here help?

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/article/go-to-work-on-an-egg-posters-from-a-golden-age-of-government-comms

https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-topic/health-and-welfare/nhs-posters-and-leaflets/

https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-topic/transport-and-travel/road-safety-campaigns/

https://peopleshistorynhs.org/museumobjects/wash-hands-before-eating/

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/376613587558623710/

[barry1010]

Those were the days when people had to sneak off to the Family Planning for contraception.  Happy times

[wolf63]

I've seen books that are of the railway posters of that time.  Maybe there is a collection of the public awareness posters in book form too.

[barry1010]

Thanks everyone.  Happy memories triggered even though those are not the ones I really want to see.  The 'wash your hands before eating' is the closest.

I really like the old railway posters too, wolf.   The opening scenes on some tv shows have triggered this, those beautifully drawn images that I find so appealing - the new series of All Creatures Great and Small and The Durrells, for example.