Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Limited Excursion to Scarborough (1914)
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Price: £4.50
Highly detailed programme for a Bass brewery outing by train to Scarborough, dated Friday July 24th 1914. The programme's 40 pages describe in detail the transportation arrangements, places of interest and amusements on offer in Scarborough and attractions to which free or discounted entry was available to excursion ticket holders. There are also a number of illustrations.
Produced on the eve of the First World War, this gives an insight into life and leisure in Britain before the strain and social upheaval of war began to take effect.
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