H. H. Martyn & Co.
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H. H. Martyn & Co was a wood and stone carving company based in Cheltenham, England. It provided a service for architects and grew to employ more than a thousand people. It decorated the interiors of
A Gloster Meteor
RMS Queen Mary. Private dining room door. 1934
RMS Empress of Asia. Architect: G.A. Crawley. Dining saloon, plaster and iron work.
RMS Queen Elizabeth
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RMS Queen Elizabeth was a British ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line. Along with her sister Queen Mary, she provided a weekly transatlantic service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and N
H. H. Martyn & Co.
…continued to flourish in the following years, although the depression in the 1930s took its toll. Among many other liners, both the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth contained furniture and fittings from Martyns. Numerous decorative contracts ranged from royal commissions to public buildings, universities, cathedrals…
RMS Queen Elizabeth at Southampton, England, in 1967
Queen Elizabeth under construction at Clydebank
Scale models of Queen Mary (foreground) and Queen Elizabeth (background) created by John Brown & Company, on display at the Glasgow Museum of Transport
Normandie, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth at New York Harbor in 1940