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Old 06-03-2007, 14:16   #15
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Re: Death of tradition.

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Originally Posted by Ianto.W. View Post
No decent woman would even go in a tap room as this was also called the smoke room and women did not smoke in public either
I wonder what changed, and made it acceptable for women to smoke in public, World War II?

I watched Brief Encounter again the other day, and there was the lovely Celia Johnson puffing away like a good un, whilst sat in the buffet on Carnforth station, and that was filmed at the end of 1945.
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