The posters are either relentlessly peppy--"Let's go to work as one man for road maintenance!"

FORBES: Dictator Chic

Your brother worked there as a maintenance man but I was to be the one to work there as a scientist.

FORBES: Dear Dad, With Love

During his lifetime he managed to publish seven novels and do some documentary work for British TV (you can see him in one of them as a Fat Man on a Beach, first broadcast shortly after Johnson killed himself).

FORBES: On Jonathan Coe: Give Me 27 Films and I'll Show You the Man