MB2/LCHA/8/5128

Handbook for the Oriental Bazaar. [50pp, printed]

Whit Mon-Wednesday, [20-22 May] 1929

From: 1929 To: 1929

Contains: - Title page with opening hours and admission prices; officers and executive committee; order of proceedings for opening ceremony by Mrs H C Hambro of The Hyde; plan of the Wesleyan Hall; foreword by W J Bush; Description of the bazaar; photograph of the Chapel Street, Wesleyan church; a snapshot story of Chapel Street Wesleyan Church; order of proceedings for second ay to be opened by the children of Chapel Street; notices; order of proceedings for third day to be opened by Lady Helen Cassel of Putteridge Bury; concerts and entertainments (including electrical gramophone recordings through Loud Speakers and a living marionette show); Ladies’ Guild Needlework Stall; Refreshment stall; tariff; miscellaneous stall, Sunday School and Young Leaguers’ Needlework stall; Arts and Crafts stall; Wesley Guild Needlework Stall; cake stall; The House of a Thousand Delights; Handkerchief Stall; flower stall; The shop of the forty thieves; toilet stall; the circuit stall; side shows – athletic club; thanks and acknowledgments; vocal and instrumental concert on Thursday; - Adverts for Sunman & Son, Chemists, Buick, West End Motors (London and Luton) Ltd; Sidney Bennett & Son Ltd, coal merchants; John E Burrows electrical contractor; W U Tearle (twines); Marshall & Co millinery specialists; Fredk and Hubert Thurston, photographers; Covington’s tobacconists, Redrup & Starkings Ltd (red-star fruit and malt bread); Hodgson’s Library; Chas Jeyes, builder etc; W G Brightman, butcher; W Chamberlain & Co, hardware; A Tonge, electrical contractor; Baxter Hart & co, bleachers and dyers to hat and millinery trades; Brentnall & Cleland, coal merchants; James Bros, tailors; Harrison & co, house and business transfer agents; Chas Mares Ltd outfitter [with photo of shop window]; E Williams & Son, shoes; H Knight, grocers; British General Insurance Co Ltd; H G Partridge & Co, prams; B E Barrett, car dealer; G A Wild & Sons, saddlers and sports outfitters; Wooton & Webb Ltd, photographic chemists; G Cartwright & Son, dairy [with photograph of the inside of the dairy]; H White (Luton) Ltd, shoes; Dunham & Haines, cars dealer; G E Edwards, tailor and outfitter; Bateson, meat; Barrow’s Stores, grocer; D Dudley & Sons, fish; Gibbs, Bamforth & Co, ‘printers of this handbook’; Blundell Bros (Luton) Ltd, furniture; S Farmer & Co, musical instruments, radios, gramophones.

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1960

Bush, W.J.,
Hambro, Edith Gertrude,
Cassel, Helen

LUTON, Luton Chapel Street, Methodism, bazaars, advertisements, ILLUSTRATIONS, entertainment, Bamforth & Company Gibbs