LOST UMBRELLAS
The London Transport Board’s lost property office in Baker Street — Sherlock’s Holmes’s old address —is a queer place. It was revealed recently that there have been 65,000 written inquiries in 1934" apart from personal applications.
Ninety per cent, of the lost umbrellas are lost by women. (More forgetful? “No, they try to carry too much.”) Last year 81,000 um-
brellas were lost on the London trams, buses and tube trains. Other articles lost number 190,000.
Wet weather means a jump in fugitive umbrellas. One day recently 901 'umbrellas came in. In normal weather they dribble in at a paltry 150 or so a day. Between 4000 and 50.00 unclaimed and “time-expired” umbrellas are sold by the board at public auction every month.
Every week between £250 and £3OO in cash comes in in handbags and wallets.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4694, 16 May 1935, Page 2
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