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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17271, 8 October 1921, Page 2

The Technical College Board last night, on the recommendation of the Ladies' Advisory Committee, appointed honoraiy; examiners as Needlework, Mrs Chilton and Miss Heywood; laundry wort', Mrs Anderson and Mrs Hay; house management, Mrs Opie ana Mrs Herbert; millinery, Mrs Brock and Mrs Hight: dressmaking, M" Brock an< i Mra Hight; cookery, Mrs Gardner and Miss Gilmonr; and examiners for Dr. Thacker'js trophy: Mrs Gardner and Miss Gilinonr. - Visitors returning to London after an .absence of several years often express regret at the disappearance of London signs. At one time, when fewer people could read, every' tradesman used to hang out a sign to ifidicate his trade. Chemists had a pestle and mortar, glovers a wooden gloved. m? 1 i_ barbers a striped pole. They .have all long since disappeared, except the pole, wnioh until quite recently was almost invariably to be seen outside small -hairdressers' shops. Even the huge bottles of coloured liquids in chethiute'' windows are gradually disappearing. All these «igri« are reminwcent of the craft guilds of -the Middle Ages. This disappearance of tradesmen's signs is the result of the development of the big shop, and the old .craft guild signs are no longer used because tneir meaning is forgotten and their expense -ii superfluous.