• Reference
    Z1886/7
  • Title
    'The Davis Gazette' magazine of the Davis Gas Stove Company, Luton and London. Volume 1 No. 7
  • Date free text
    Feb 1921
  • Production date
    From: 1921 To: 1921
  • Scope and Content
    Includes: - Editorial notes. - 'A New Year Rally' report of 'Oxford Street' entertaining colleagues of The Davis Gas Stove Company Ltd from Camberwell and Luton on 1 January. - Party 'Pokes'; rehtorical humourous questions arising from the 'New Year Rally'. - Reminiscences of a whist drive from the referee 9believed to be whist drive a the 'New Year Rally'). - 'A Call to Action' poem by A W Banks. - Photographs of a kitten playing with a shoe and of C A Bone of the Drawing Office sitting on a stone wall at Silsoe woods. - 'We Would Like to Know' thought to be questions relating to internal issues and jokes within the company. - Oxford Street personalities; witty descriptions of Oxford Street staff, identified by initials. - Economy, including a poem about 'hand-me-down trousers' - The Night of the Storm; short story - Davis Athletic and Social Club report; the Pascall Cup, presented by The Interoven Stove Company Ltd., and t be offered annually for billiards. Football, hockey and indoor games reports. - 'The Letters of Maurice' humorous epistle. - 'Wives and Women' by a mere man. - Tennis Clubs' dance at Castle Street Hall - Wedding Bells: marriages of staff members: Percy William Barth, previously of the Brick Shed, to Annie West. - 'What I Mean by "Safety First" ' by Gertrude King, aged 13, winner of competition for children of employees of The Davis Gas Stove Company Ltd. - Correspondence - H & C Davis & Co Ltd., gossip from Clapham and Camberwell. - Cartoon 'Stocktaking at Clapham' - Allotments by J B Riding F.R.H.S
  • Level of description
    item