21st January, 1915
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In ‘A’ Company’s bungalow there are placards up, ‘A Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year to Bromley people to Bromley people and the Mayor.’ They have a ‘safety-curtain’ to their stage divided into the usual advertising spaces, and filled up by ‘G Weeks & Son, hot water pipe wallahs (‘wallah’ is a merchant); ‘Maunder’s for ‘roti’ (sweets); some ‘Blomas ink, 3 annas a bottle’; ‘Try Medhurst’s Corsets’ (shame); ‘Fawsitt’s soles wear like Bromley steak’