HAPPY NEW YEAR - 1939 HEREFORD

To start the New Year, a photograph from the "Hereford Times" as published on Saturday, 7th January 1939 (the closest we could get to 1938 VBCW Hereford):

The caption to the photograph reads:

"Hereford Lit Up - The January sales, which cause the ladies to take interest in the brightly lit shops of Hereford in the evenings, taken this week, timely as well as pictorially interesting. It takes in that side of the High Town from A.C.Edwards & Sons, opposite the Old House, to Greenlands, at the beginning of High Street."

The original page, advertising amongst other things, teas and coffee from Gurneys ("the Leading Grocers in the High Town"), Burton's "Challenge Sale" at 9 - 11a, High Street ("the Tailor of Taste"), and Raleigh Cycles from E.B.Howell ("Quality at the Right Price") at 14/15 Commercial Road: 

VBCW Note : clearly, Lord de Braose's "blackout restrictions" were relaxed over the Christmas and New Year period.....