Friday, 6 September 2019

Fake 83

Lot of bars and hotels are decorated with what appear to be posters advertising railway travel and railway excursions, from the first half of the 20th century, roughly the period spanned by the two world wars.

Here we have a poster in the same style, but which has dropped the railway connection. We thought at first a complete confection, given that Camber Sands are on the coast of East Sussex and that the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth (owned by an Arab prince) does not date from the first half of the 20th century, from the glory days of excursions by rail. For the Arab prince, see reference 1.

However, Cortana reveals that there is an old dock in Portsmouth called the Camber Dock, now mainly used by fishing boats. So the name is not nonsense, although probably not one known to people who do not know old Portsmouth well.

Notwithstanding, I thought it fair to score a fake.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/07/fake-76.html.

Reference 2: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=camber. Our last visit to Camber Sands (and the Gallivant Hotel) seems to have been back in 2011.

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