In one week my hubby and I will be on plane heading to our next vacation to Glasgow and London. I am super excited to hit the skies again and see things I have never seen before and visit with friends and family we have not seen in a while.
Vintage Travel Posters for Glasgow and London
Glasgow, Scotland:
First Up Glasgow. My husbands parents are from Glasgow and he still has family in the city so that is why we are visiting it first.
1940s / 1950s Vintage Travel Poster for Pan Am Travel to Glasgow by Clipper.
I just LOVE this ad!
You can get to Glasgow or Edinburgh by Train. “The Coronation Scot” & “The Coronation”.
Or see Glasgow by Bus. 1930s Travel Poster from 1938.
Source: amazon
“See the Pride of Scotland” – A Vintage Canadian Pacific ad for travel to Glasgow says you can get to the city by boat.
W.G. FINCH (DATES UNKNOWN) SEE THE PRIDE OF SCOTLAND / CANADIAN PACIFIC
“London to Glasgow Holiday by Rail”.
If you read my blog regularly, you know why I shared this ad. SCOTTIE DOGS!!!
Aren’t they cute???!
“SCOTLAND It’s Highlands and Islands” – Now this photo does not mention Glasgow specifically but it is so darn lovely that I needed to share it with all of you.
The colours are so vibrant in this image. Fantastic.
London, England
After Glasgow, we are jetting off to Jolly Old London. This has been on my bucket list for a very long time and I seriously cannot wait to get there and see all the wonderful things the city has to offer.
Vintage Travel Poster for a visit to London by Jet Clipper Pan Am Airlines.
Source: vintage poster blog
Visit London with British Railways.
So many things to do while in London. Where should I start first?
Source: DP Vintage Posters
Beautifully painted London travel poster.
Source: Londontopia
Ohhh this ad from Delta Air Lines is so very pretty. 100% something you would frame and put on your wall.
Source: Amazon
As the ad says “Visit Britain”….I’m working on it! Southern British Railways, 1950s – original vintage poster by Roderick Laing.
Source: AntikBar.co.uk
And that ends our travel poster trip, hope you enjoyed the ride 🙂
Okay friends, please tell me what should I see and do while in Glasgow and London. All suggestions welcome!
FURTHER READING: You can also check out my archived blog posts on all things Vintage Travel HERE.
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This past Tuesday I was invited to attend a special Blogging event at the soon to be opened “Bean and Baker Malt Shop“, to get a sneak peek of all the goodies the public is going get to enjoy on June 2nd!
(Edit: Bean and Baker is NOW OPEN)
I attended with a fellow friend and blogger Irene from Petite Plus Meow.
Out front of Bean and Baker
How adorable is Irene??
Leading up to this event, I did a little fun post on Vintage Malt Shop Images, which you can find HERE.
Now lets talk about my Bean and Baker Malt Shop Experience…..
Official Press Release:
Husband and wife team, Liezel and Brennan Anderson, are proud to announce the opening of Bean and Baker Malt Shop Toronto’s revival of the soda fountain malt shop in Bickford Park. Bean and Baker Malt Shop, located at 326 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON., offers classic sodas, ice cream, coffee, and handcrafted desserts and pastries. They provide premium food and drinks with topnotch quality ingredients while showcasing the retro era malt shop experience.
The 16 seat establishment is clean and decorated in a retro 1950’s style. The menu will feature premium coffee, savoury pies, quiche, pies, cakes, cookies, ice cream, floats and milkshakes. Specializing in handmade sodas made by authentic Soda Jerks, with flavours ranging from Root ‘n Cola, Gramp’s Ginger, Real Orange, and Hibiscus. It features an open concept kitchen and Soda Jerks behind the counter complete with a bowtie and a smile. Customers can sit inside or grab and go. Hours of operation are Tuesday-Saturday:10 am 8 pm, Sunday: 11 am 6 pm, Monday: Closed.
Owner, Liezel Anderson describes her vision for the malt shop, “Our goal is to provide Toronto with an experience that stands out and is unique to every customer. We want to bring the malt shop experience back! We want to give people a unique escape from everyday life. People have the right to know what they’re eating and drinking so we use premium quality ingredients. We aspire to be a neighbourhood hub where many generations of families can enjoy good food and each other’s company.”
Liz with the owners: Liezel & Brennan and fellow blogger Irene from Petite Plus Meow
When we arrived we were greeted by Brennan and his fantastic Soda Jerks offering water for us to drink. Why water? Well as we drank the fresh drink we were told that all their products start with the freshest and most filtered water around. Nothing but the best for their customers, starting with us (I like this place already).
As we drank the water we got to take a walk around and see what they have done decor wise. Check it out!
One of the counters inside the shop
Some of the Inside Decor
The Yummy Menu
Back of the Shop
Okay time to eat and boy did we get treated with so many wonderful goodies.
First up..Handmade Sodas made by those authentic Soda Jerks.
The Friendly Soda Jerk Making my Vanilla Cream Soda (with real Vanilla Beans). YUM!
Then we got to enjoy some of their savouries options:
Wisey’s Mini
Mini Beef and Cheese Pie
Veggie Quiche
All so yummy I could not decide what was my fav
And now it was SWEET TIME!! The yummy collection of pure homemade desserts we sampled was:
Warm Cherry Pie Pocket
Dark Chocolate Eclair
Old School PB ad J Pie (MY FAV!)
Once again, really good.
Now you cannot possible go to a Malt Shop and not have a Malt Milkshake. Our shakes for today were “Burnt Marshmallow (using Ed’s ice cream). I’m not sure if my Soda Jerk read my mind but the only Ice Cream I eat at Ed’s is the Burnt Marshmallow. Just ask my husband, there are 20 other flavours and I don’t even care or even look. SHOW ME THE MARSHMALLOW!! So when I was presented this shake I already KNEW that I was going to love it..and I did.
Mini version for today. Yours will come in the traditional way if you eat in.
Time to move aside all that I have eaten so far to make room for the next goodie..Ice Cream Sundaes made anyway we liked and with any kind of Ed’s Ice Cream.
Flavour..Burnt Marshmallow..of course.
By now your probably thinking..this must be the end right? WRONG? We were then treated to the making of their Ice Cream Sodas (Hibiscus flavored for the example).
I actually did not try it because I had no more room but from the image you can see below and from all that I mentioned above I know it is going to be amazing when I do try it.
Best part of an Ice Cream Soda..when it fizzes up!
Last treat before we slowly moved to the door (and decided to walk home lol) was watching the talented artist Lisa Farrows paint this milkshake container by hand for the shop. Her images can also be seen on the skateboards I posted earlier in the decor portion. It was really cool and the finished product was amazing!
Lisa Farrows Art
Now it’s really time to go. Thank you to everyone at Bean and Baker for making this event so much fun! And to the readers of this blog post…go and visit their shop (326 Harbord St.)! You will not be disappointed (I was not).
