[HPforGrownups] Re: Source of Riddle's Diary Solved

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 87466

On 22 Dec 2003 at 21:02, Geoff Bannister wrote:

> Geoff:
> A point which may be worth considering is that, for many years now, 
> it has been possible to get diaries advertising your own 
> organisation - possibly by stamping the cover or by additional 
> printing on the title page.
> 
> It could just be possible that the newsagent in question had some 
> diaries done for advertising purposes or maybe for Christmas. I agree 
> it was in wartime and there were paper restrictions but it might have 
> been a way of reminding customers that they were still there and 
> stopping locals ambling off to the bigger newsagents and stationers 
> in Vauxhall or Waterloo or Brixton.

That seems somewhat attractive to me - I can actually see that 
happening, maybe as an expression of the "business-as-usual" 
attitude that was fairly well known during the Blitz.

The Vauxhall area was bombed - and I think I can see a patriotic 
newsagent deliberately printing up those diaries as a kind of 
statement - despite the bombing, we're still here. Despite the 
bombing, we will remain here.

 
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