St Enoch Hotel, Glasgow: Menu Maps celebrating the record-breaking time set

celebrating the record-breaking time set by Frank W

It is now known as Clermont London Charing Cross

The design by Richard Bird and Michael Mayhew was adapted from an illuminated medieval manuscript and shows a fox with sharp teeth and snaking red tongue

reflects Charko’s earlier design work for the BIBA department store in South Kensington

Each lithograph had a drawn frame so that the print could be pinned to the wall

St Enoch Hotel, Glasgow: Menu Maps celebrating the record-breaking time setAn original railway hotel menu, St Enoch Hotel, Glasgow, printed by the Curwen Press, c. 1960. The hotel originally fronted St Enoch station and is said to have been the first building in Glasgow to be fitted out with electric lighting. Both the station and hotel closed in the 1960s, and the building was demolished in 1977. A higher resolution image is available for viewing on request.