Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Bits and pieces by Lois

Lemco

I’m not sure many people will have heard of Lemco today, but most people will have heard of and possibly eaten Fray Bentos corned beef. I like corned beef, just as it is, my husband loves it in corned beef hash; I’m sure everyone who makes hash has their own recipe, some involving potatoes, some […]

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Women made beautiful by Diano…

This mysterious treatment was advertised in The Sphere in 1900. By 1904 this extraordinary but secret treatment was discussed in an article in ‘Weldon’s Ladies Journal’, entitled, ‘There is no power like the magnetism of curves’… well I should be pretty powerful as I have plenty, more than enough curves, although I have never known any […]

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Tick tock

This advertisement appeared in a news magazine called The Sphere, on July 14th 1900, for a ‘field’ watch at the cost of £25. According to some calculations that I have seen, this would be about £2,500 today. This jewellers was founded in 1847 by  James William Benson and Samuel Suckley Benson; they did not just […]

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