The story of Keep Calm and Carry On

[lolly_loisides]

[video=youtube;FrHkKXFRbCI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrHkKXFRbCI&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[J.W.]

Now that is one amazing book shop!

 

[MPicciotto]

I concur! That book store is on my list of places to go in England if I ever get there. Converted railway station with the tea room intact! I had no idea that the poster wasn't used in WW2.

Matt

 

[Shangas]

Fascinating!

I've seen many parodies of that poster. One I saw at a London antiques market was "Keep Calm and Buy Vintage & Collectables" or something of that nature. Thought it was rather cute.

Today I learnt something - It was never actually used in the War. Never knew that.

 

[AmateisGal]

I never knew it wasn't used during the war, either. Fascinating video and I REALLY want to go to that bookstore.

 

[Spitfire]

One of the more solid errors in war-time movies is to hang that poster on the wall in the background, revealing that you know absolutely nothing about the period you are pretending to create. I've seen it a couple of times, though.

 

[MisterCairo]

Wonderful! Another place to add to my list for my next trip to Britain!

 

[I Adore Film Noir]

Lovely! Thank you.

 

[PADDY]

It's my local book shop

 

[Smithy]

My sister bought us one kitchen apron and two WWII enamel style mugs with the old "Keep Calm and Carry On" moniker on them. They came with a small leaflet talking about the poster and how, contrary to most thought, it was never used during the war.

Cracking little bookshop that.

 

[Sharpsburg]

What a lovely and informative little film. Thanks so much for sharing. Oh, the delights you can find on Youtube!

Keep calm and, well you know the rest.

 

[Smithy]

Love it Paddy

 

[dhermann1]

I think in a day when Britain is struggling so hard to figure out its identity in a way post imperial world, it's a good thing to have this extreme essence of traditional Britishness to contemplate.

 

[Spitfire]

Saw this one in Liberty House, London the other day:

KEEP CALM
and
CALL MOM

lol

By the way - here's a link to a site where you can generate your own poster:
http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/

 

[MisterCairo]

Thanks for the link Spitfire!

 

[Spitfire]

U r welcome

 

[Jeff M]

Thanks for the links.

 

[Philip A.]

That poster should have been reprinted and massively distributed after 9/11.

 

[J.W.]

This is what I saw this morning:

Had to think of this thread right away, but I haven't got a clue, what "pien" means.

Please excuse crappy mobile pic.

 

[Miss Sis]

I find the whole explosion of this saying/poster highly amusing, as years before it splattered across the media, a friend of ours had an original one in his kitchen.

We said, oh, that's nice, where'd it come from? He said after his company announced a whole raft of redundancies were going to be made, it just appeared on the office wall one day. Everyone had a laugh but no-one admitted they had put it up. Our friend had a closer look, realised it was a rare Wartime poster and one night some time later he took it down, rolled it up and took it home. No-one mentioned it, so he kept it and put it in his kitchen.

I do wonder where it came from, who found it and also, how much an original one of those is worth!