Shell Lady

[poliphilo]

"Mrs Booth" is a bronze statue by Ann Carrington, modelled after the shell ladies you used to be able to buy in seaside gift shops. She stands at the end of Margate's Stone Pier.  The original Mrs Booth was the lover (and landlady) of the painter J.M.W. Turner.  

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The lived as man and wife. He was known to the neighbours as Admiral "Puggy" Booth.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I was actually boggling at the shellishness of it all. And at giving the shell lady a name.