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Description: | During the Second World War every citizen in Britain was given a
gas mask by the government as protection against poisonous gas
attacks. They were issued in cardboard boxes and had to be
carried at all times.
For a young lady about town a brown
cardboard box wasn't considered to be the height of fashion;
even if there was a war on. So in an attempt to disguise it,
Miss. Bligh who owned this gas mask, covered its box with
immitation snake skin. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bromley Museum | Rights holder: | Bromley Museum Service | Subjects: | London at War | Temporal: | 1937 = 1940 | Source: | Bromley Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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