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annelouiseavery.bsky.social Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · Apr 10
Why not buy a little something from my Etsy shop? It's full of wonders, like this charming 1950s Shell Guide to Kent by the Ladybird artist Rowland Hilder! It's very difficult health-wise to work very much at present - so every little helps! etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
"You can be sure of Shell, the key to the Countryside" The Shell Guide to Kent poster was designed by Rowland Hilder, who deftly conjures the county of his childhood in his vignette: hops and apples and cherries and cob nuts, the oast-houses rising from the gentle land, Canterbury and its great martyr, and the ships of old Kent and its fiercely independent ports. The accompanying text is as richly painted as the illustration, and it reads as follows: "Kentish history begins with invasion. Celtic Iron Age invaders gave way in turn to Roman invaders, who left their coins in the soil and their roads across the county. Their chief Kentish road, Watling Street from Dover to London, is still used. Hops, cobnuts, cherries, apples are products of a county which was worth settling. Typical of modern Kent are oast-houses, in which hops are dried, their cones rising above apple and cherry blossom. Sandwich, Dover, Hythe and New Romney are four of the Cinque Ports anciently organized for the sea defence of England. Their banner is "of white cotyn, with a red crosse", their arms are "the halfe lyon and the halfe ship", and their seal is a man-of-war. St Augustine in 597 made Canterbury the spiritual capital of England, as first archbishop. Pilgrimages to the shrine of the thirty-ninth archbishop, St Thomas Becket, murdered in the cathedral in 1170, suggested to Chaucer that picture of mankind he gave in his Canterbury Tales. Kentish figures include William Harvey, discoverer of the circulation of the blood, born at Folkestone in 1578, the poet Sir Philip Sidney, born at Penshurst Place in 1554, and Samuel Palmer, who painted visionary landscapes at Shorcham near Sevenoaks, in the eighteen-twenties. Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species, one of the world's decisive books, at Downe near Bromley, publishing it in 1859." "You can be sure of Shell, the key to the Countryside" The Shell Guide to Kent poster was designed by Rowland Hilder, who deftly conjures the county of his childhood in his vignette: hops and apples and cherries and cob nuts, the oast-houses rising from the gentle land, Canterbury and its great martyr, and the ships of old Kent and its fiercely independent ports. The accompanying text is as richly painted as the illustration, and it reads as follows: "Kentish history begins with invasion. Celtic Iron Age invaders gave way in turn to Roman invaders, who left their coins in the soil and their roads across the county. Their chief Kentish road, Watling Street from Dover to London, is still used. Hops, cobnuts, cherries, apples are products of a county which was worth settling. Typical of modern Kent are oast-houses, in which hops are dried, their cones rising above apple and cherry blossom. Sandwich, Dover, Hythe and New Romney are four of the Cinque Ports anciently organized for the sea defence of England. Their banner is "of white cotyn, with a red crosse", their arms are "the halfe lyon and the halfe ship", and their seal is a man-of-war. St Augustine in 597 made Canterbury the spiritual capital of England, as first archbishop. Pilgrimages to the shrine of the thirty-ninth archbishop, St Thomas Becket, murdered in the cathedral in 1170, suggested to Chaucer that picture of mankind he gave in his Canterbury Tales. Kentish figures include William Harvey, discoverer of the circulation of the blood, born at Folkestone in 1578, the poet Sir Philip Sidney, born at Penshurst Place in 1554, and Samuel Palmer, who painted visionary landscapes at Shorcham near Sevenoaks, in the eighteen-twenties. Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species, one of the world's decisive books, at Downe near Bromley, publishing it in 1859."
April 12, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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#ForSale #ShellGuides #1920sPrints #VictorianPrints
annelouiseavery.bsky.social Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 27d
Attention! New stock! To celebrate the change of season, I'm putting masses of new delightful things on my little Etsy store, including flocks of Victorian & 1920s bird prints, such as this wonderful 1950s poster by John Leigh-Pemberton, the Shell Guide to Life on the Cliff. etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
The Shell Guide to Life on the Cliff.
August 31, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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#LifeInTheAir #ShellGuides #JohnLeigh-Pemberton
annelouiseavery.bsky.social Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · Mar 25
For sale! The Shell Guide Guide to Life in the Sky. An original 1956 poster by John Leigh-Pemberton. Dm to buy or purchase over on my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
March 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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#ForSale #ShellGuides #JohnLeigh-Pemberton #LifeInTheSky
annelouiseavery.bsky.social Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · May 23
For sale! The iconic Shell Guide to Life in the Sky by John Leigh-Pemberton. Greylag geese, buzzards, kestrels, skylarks, swallows, swifts & house martins swoop & dive between pipistrelle, long-eared & horseshoe bats. Price: £50. Dm or purchase from my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
Shell Guide to Life in the Sky Shell Guide to Life in the Sky
May 23, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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Let’s ROLL SHELLERS 🙌 It’s amazing what a little bit of wind can do with delivering the Shell piles. Don’t miss out.

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March 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM