The 1940s and 50s was a period, in England, when the public were encouraged to explore Britain's countryside and archaeology. Writers such as John Betjeman and Niklaus Pevsner had already begun to produce architectural guides to the counties of England.
These pictorial posters were part of a series published by London Transport in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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The old railway adverts nationally are brilliant. Works of art of course and valuable as such, evocate of childhood to those of a certain age, and a historical phenomenon too as the British public began a limited freedom to get out and about. Plus cultural markers of the city/country facts and fictions that still fascinate us. Worth a clipcast of their own!

@abailart:
Seen in north London last night, a small truck bearing the legend:

Cuttle Construction

Anything to do with you?

That would be our Ivor and/or his family. We are not in touch with him or his scally progeny who are scattered all over the Smoke scuttling from one blag to another. Knowing him, the van was probably loaded with swag that fell off the back of a truck in Ipswich. Last time the bizzies got him he and his mates were disguised as squirrels outside a cargo depot at Heathrow.

Wasn't there a song about them:

The Sweeney's doin' ninety
Cos they've got the word to go
And they got a gang of squirrels
In a shed up at Heathrow.