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Extracted from RETROSPECS - our monthly newsletter
LANCING GIRLS? LAMENT?The ladies of Lancing are apparently divided into two classes, those who wear Wellingtons and those who don?t. Not by any means that Dame Fashion has cast a spell over the town ? or part of it ? to wage a war between the ?Wellingtonians? and the ?Silk Hose Annas?.It seems to be purely a matter of necessity, for the Wellingtonians live in Freshbrook Road and if all that was said about the road at the Lancing Parish Council meeting on Monday is true, its name must be particularly appropriate for there is evidently more splashiness than flashiness in the road.Moreover, the girls are by no means less beautiful than their rivals in other parts of the town, but yet they are a little jealous of them, for, according to Mr Greet, whose opinion was endorsed by other members of the Parish Council, the Wellingtonians are compelled, after a shower of rain, to wear knee-length boots because of the state of Freshbrook Road. When they get into ?civilisation? as it were, they see their rivals displaying shapely ankles ? and sometimes a little more ? in spotless silken hose.?This was part of the report on Lancing Parish Council?s debate on who was responsible for the upkeep of Freshbrook Road, the railway company or the Rural District council.(Worthing Herald November 10th 1928)
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