Original, charming post WW1 era shop front of L. Bowley Baker and Confectioner. A classic independent corner shop. Outside posing for a photograph are the baker & female shop assistants. The baker wears an apron, hat and has a built up shoe, invalided from the war?. A cute small girl wearing a cloche hat stands in the street. circa 1920, 1921, Europe.
Poster for "the Boy" in the window helps to date this photograph - The Boy is a musical comedy with a book by Fred Thompson and Percy Greenbank (based on Arthur Wing Pinero's 1885 play, The Magistrate), music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot and lyrics by Greenbank and Adrian Ross. The original production opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1917 and ran for 801 performances – one of the longest runs of any musical theatre piece up to that time. It had successful foreign productions and tours. Source: Wikipedia. This information and the skirt length and over-sized lady's collars date this image to the end of WW1 in but the cloche hat worn by the child puts the date more towards 1921.
Size: 6650px × 4499px
Location: England, UK
Photo credit: © ThislifeThen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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