A little stick of Blackpool pietra…

If 1930s Blackpool looks like a British version of the Italian Riviera it is because this poster advertisement, right, was designed by a Neapolitan watercolourist, Fortunino Matania, for the LMS railway company whose trains serviced the Lancashire resort.

Even if British resorts were as packed with tourists these days, one could not imagine Tracey Emin e…

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