AT a recent Memories talk to the South Durham U3A in Cockerton, Bob Beevers very kindly handed over this splendid Echo clothes brush. Bob, who was personnel manager with the Echo’s parent company, believes it was made in 1928, which was a time when the paper offered all sorts of gimmicky items to its readers: bookmarks, tea services, box Brownie cameras, playing cards…
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