Vauxhall Works c.1920 [Z1306/75/17/34]
Thursday
23rd November 1916: A young man has been sentenced at the Luton
Borough Sessions to one month’s imprisonment for giving a silvered farthing to
a newsboy in exchange for a newspaper and five pence change. A girl employed at
the Vauxhall works gave evidence that she and other girls there had silvered
coins at the works for people to wear on their watch chains. She had not known
that it was wrong to do so. The Magistrates’ Clerk told the court that to
silver coins was a criminal offence, and anyone using one was liable to twelve
months imprisonment. The foreman of the department concerned has now left the
works.
Source:
Leighton Buzzard Observer, 28th November 1916
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