16-07-2017, 09:46 AM
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1924: Fog as it was then and isn’t nowI am old enough to remember the last serious London fog in the winter of 1962/3. The intensity of it was so extreme that the bus driver would drive at a snail’s pace while the conductor walked in front in order to avoid any accidents. It was the Clean Air act which rendered such events obsolete.
17-07-2017, 09:44 AM
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1924: Class againDoes the policeman have difficulty in spelling this list of upper class names? Or is he intimidated by the thought this toff will be hiring clever lawyers to avoid the penalty for speeding? Either way the class system is at work and the miscreant gets away with it.
17-07-2017, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr Magoo
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1924: Class again Does the policeman have difficulty in spelling this list of upper class names? Or is he intimidated by the thought this toff will be hiring clever lawyers to avoid the penalty for speeding? Either way the class system is at work and the miscreant gets away with it.
18-07-2017, 09:44 AM
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1925: Oxford trousersEvery now and then an attempt is made to introduce a new fashion for men’s clothes. They rarely last long and will never compete with the frequent and frenetic story of women’s fashion crazes.
The drawing accurately depicts this absurd idea and clearly shows how impractical it was. Like all other fashion ideas its real purpose was to sell more clothes.
20-07-2017, 09:44 AM
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1925: What makes them interesting?It is only very rarely that we see cartoons which relate to the widespread British Empire which was very much a going concern at the time.
Here the hostess is trying (unsuccessfully) to show that she can make a significant contribution to the discussion. No need to guess which of the two men is the returned traveller.
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