Hide the Poker

Category

Library Item

Item no

30300

Title

Hide the Poker

Description

A page from a World War One scrapbook (vol 2) showing an official notice from a newspaper encouraging people to avoid waste:

'Hundreds of thousands of tons of coal per year would be saved if all the pokers in the country were put away..
A coal poker is a coal waster'.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1917

Size

29.0 x 15.0 cm

Type

Document

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Government press advert used during WW1 to encourage the public to reduce the use of coal.

This image is taken from the 2nd of 2 scrapbooks compiled during World War One by the Thomson Family who were living at Glengyle Terrace in Edinburgh. Most of the items pasted into the scrapbooks are press cuttings, leaflets and ephemera but a couple of articles, such as letters and a ration book, give personal details and an indication of the impact of war on the family. Many of the letters of correspondence are sent to Thomas Thomson. Thomas Davidson Thomson was only 3 years old at the outbreak of war and so, his parents must have collated and maintained the scrapbooks, which span the full period of the war, on his behalf.

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