Again Bootblacks and Polishers
The old-fashioned bootblack who carries his stock-in-trade with him in a box and kneels down to his job', has reappeared with the hard times, states a London correspondent. It was thought those kingly shiners who occupy whole shops in the underground arcades of the main railway stations had superseded the humbler follows, but economic crises have a way of bringing back old friends. The brass polisher, who goes around in the mornings offering to polish uj> the outside metal work of cafes and shops, also is seen ©a his rounds. ' ~
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 21
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94Again Bootblacks and Polishers Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 21
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