A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low
ways) and byways of Great Britain.
- Why were some customers at Harrods offered cognac or smelling salts
during their visit to the store?
- What links DJ "Whispering Bob" Harris to a split pair of velvet
trousers?
- Which high street store issued a patent for a drug to treat
syphilis?
- The staff of which shop had uniforms by Mary Quant and hairstyles by
Vidal Sassoon?
- Who placed a sign on her bedroom door bearing the legend 'Chief
Chick'?
- Did you know that the cashpoint was invented while someone was having
a bath?
Within these pages you will find love and romance, murder and mayhem,
royalty, aristocrats and commoners, politics and politicians, sex and
scandal, sporting triumphs and sporting disasters, millionaires and
eccentrics, film stars and train robbers and much more besides.