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Description: | Mrs Evans (left) and Mrs Lane worked at Carter's Umbrellas at No 30 Royal Exchange for 15 and 11 years respectively. They had both been associated with the umbrella trade since leaving school. They jokingly called themselves 'the two old ladies of Threadneedle Street' in reference to the 'old lady' nickname for the nearby Bank of England.
The women told photographer John Eastcott that over the years they had seen an increase in patterned gentlemen's umbrellas, more fancy colourful ladies' umbrellas, and a tremendous rise in price. In 1974 the price of ladies' umbrellas ranged from ��1.75 to ��6.50, and gentlemen's from ��2.10 to ��10.95. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | �� John Eastcott | Subjects: | work | Temporal: | 1974 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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