| Description | Includes receipts from a variety of businesses located throughout the country including Llanfair P.G., Menai Bridge and Beaumaris, Anglesey; Bangor, Gwynedd; Chester; Liverpool and London. The businesses include chemists, grocers, drapers, shoe shops, ironmongers and coal and coke merchants.
Amongst the most famous companies are the Ritz Hotel (London) Ltd., Fenwick Ltd. London, Fortnum and Masons Ltd., Harrods, Harvey Nichols & Co. Ltd., Selfridge and Co. Ltd., Marshall and Snelgrove.
Also includes receipts from business local to Bangor e.g. Pollecoffs Ltd., Henderson's., Josiah Hughes and Palferman's.
Of particular interest are the receipts from "Wartski's, Ltd. by the Cathedral, Bangor" for various clothes and accessories including, fur cap, angora coatee, crocodile handbag, 1940-1941 and another from Wicken's Studio for mounted photographs of evacuee groups, 1940. |