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Vintage transport photographs from Quirky Prints

Since man invented the wheel a mere 5,000 years ago, transport has played a crucial role in the development of our society. Vintage transport photographs may not share images of the first wheel with us, but they do provide a fascinating insight into the different forms of transport that were popular with previous generations – from the everyday bicycle to the surreal Zeppelin!

Recognising our fascination with different modes of transport, Quirky Prints set out to find a selection of vintage transport photographs to feature on their website of vintage photographs. Our hunt for old black and white photographs and images took them to hundreds of antique shops, collectors’ fairs, vintage photograph dealers and specialists around the world.

The resulting collection is literally thousands of hand-picked vintage photographs, on all manner of topics, including landscapes, people, shops, far-flung civilizations and transport from years ago. And among the many old black and white, hand coloured and sepia photographs that were collected, were a selection of fabulous vintage transport photographs.

Within the dedicated TRANSPORT category on their on-line gallery, Quirky Prints offers a selection of these unique vintage photographs. A lady dressed in old-fashioned skirts and stylish hat, gingerly rides her bicycle, a horse-drawn ‘bus’ is packed with passengers, majestic ships with their sails aloft glide across calm seas. There are pictures you would expect of vintage cars and motorbikes – and ones you wouldn’t, such as Zeppelins in flight! All are captured in evocative colour or black and white photographic detail.

These old, forgotten, but delightful vintage photographs, make stunning photographic prints. They become unique fine art, which can be hung in our homes, or bought as original and imaginative gifts for friends. No matter that we know nothing of the people or places in these old photographs. They are moments frozen in time. These are pictures with their own unique story to tell. They have as much meaning and resonance with us today, as they had for those involved in creating the vintage photograph all those years ago.

These original vintage transport photographs are all reproduced on finest grade, heavyweight art paper, to preserve all the fine detail and quality of the image. These Giclee prints are then enlarged and presented in contemporary metal frames, which have been carefully chosen both to improve the images and to complement any style of house decor. They really are an original interior design idea to make a wall proud.

For anyone who is completely uninspired and bored with the same prints offered for sale in the high street – those thousands of similar pictures that appear in thousands of homes across the UK - Quirky Prints offers something new, some different. For quirkiness you won’t find anywhere else, from the UK specialists in vintage photo restoration

There are thirty-two other categories to choose from on the Quirky Prints website - from Agriculture to World War II – with thousands of images taken from original vintage photographs. Each of the old black and white photographs has been carefully restored to remove any damage, but preserve the originality of the image. Others have been painstakingly hand coloured or had their original colours restored.

The result is a remarkable visual time capsule of years gone by. Within the collection of vintage transport photographs on the Quirky Prints website, we can be reminded of how we managed to get from A to B, in years gone by!

So come on in and browse the vintage transport photographs in our Quirky Prints online art gallery.