6th May, 1914

They were too poor to smoke...

Lilian Spender

Political observer, philanthropist and wife of Wilfred Spender

[…] smell was appalling! Tobacco smoke is the most delicate perfume compared to it & I would have welcomed it as a disinfectant but they were too poor to smoke.*

*On a visit to the Shankill Road Picture House.

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