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BNPS.co.uk (01202) 558833. <br />
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The original painting by artist Beryl Cook that inspired the Les Dawson TV advert for the Post Office in the 1980s has been discovered.<br />
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Cook, famous for her bawdy seaside-postcard style of art, painted 'Plymouth Market' in 1978.<br />
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The colourful work depicts two buxom middle-aged women shopping at a market.<br />
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It was this image that gave the Post Office the idea of having a series of animated cartoons of two gossiping women for their advertising campaign of the eighties.

BNPS.co.uk (01202) 558833.
Pic: DavidLayAuctions/BNPS

The original painting by artist Beryl Cook that inspired the Les Dawson TV advert for the Post Office in the 1980s has been discovered.

Cook, famous for her bawdy seaside-postcard style of art, painted 'Plymouth Market' in 1978.

The colourful work depicts two buxom middle-aged women shopping at a market.

It was this image that gave the Post Office the idea of having a series of animated cartoons of two gossiping women for their advertising campaign of the eighties.