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1947: Ticket inspection

No automation. So many jobs have now been done away with. The third passenger coming up the escalator clearly has a problem.


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1947: Mistake in transit

The mighty personage did well to grab the column which the runners had not seen.

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1952: Not a conventional message

This is hardly what the florist expects to have to do.


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25-05-2018, 10:34 AM
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1952: Not a conventional message

This is hardly what the florist expects to have to do.


Now it's done by texts and e-mails!
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1949: Smoking was the norm

Times really have changed with regard to smoking. Non -smokers really were a disregarded minority. During basic training in my National Service days we were told there would be a break for us to smoke and that non-smokers could ‘go through the motions.’


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I'm not quite that old, but even when ah wer a lad smoking was the norm. I think smoking was even allowed in the office where I first worked.
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I'm not quite that old, but even when ah wer a lad smoking was the norm. I think smoking was even allowed in the office where I first worked.

Smoking in the office was also the norm when I started working in them in 1956. In a meeting, as things got tense, they would all get out their fags and light up. I would often be the only non-smoker present. The room would be full of their smoke. I can also remember when having my hair cut the wretched barber had a lit fag stuck to his lower lip.
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Smoking in the office was also the norm when I started working in them in 1956. In a meeting, as things got tense, they would all get out their fags and light up. I would often be the only non-smoker present. The room would be full of their smoke. I can also remember when having my hair cut the wretched barber had a lit fag stuck to his lower lip.
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1955: Optical illusion

This is an unusual thing to see in the pages of Punch. It does convey an impression of menace although nothing bad is really happening.


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1946: Flexible working

The draughtsman is imitating the lamp. Of course he could just stand up and arrange the lamp accordingly. This is just an amusing pretence.


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