lol!

Finding out lots of fascinating period detail - apparently Boots had a book lending service and were issuing 35 million books per year by 1938.

Found this great photo on our local history website:

http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_photograph.jsp?item_id=777

This research is getting really addictive!

The company liked to emphasise its reputation for providing clean books

Fascinating, but please tell me. Does 'clean' mean not dirty paper or not dirty content? I read it as the former, what with disease and all, but then guessed it probably meant the latter.

Gosh, I don't know! I'm tending towards the former, but it's a good question

Angel Pavement - JB Priestley, 1930. That's a novel that catches the mood of the time.

Put French and Saunders out of your mind, they have a tendency to ruin anything. They were never my cup of tea