Building materials specialist, Ian Betts, and MOLA photographer, Andy Chopping, are working on a project to record and photograph surviving tile panels in branches of WHSmith.
These tiles were made by Carter & Co. at their pottery works in Poole, Dorset in the 1920s. Commissioned by the retailer, they were installed in the entrance ways of a number of its branches. They were intended to advertise the wide selection of books and other items on sale, however their distinctive Art Deco style and the scenes depicted also expose a great deal about society at that time.
