This advert for the Bon Marché store in Brixton appeared in the Bromley & District Times in early January 1917. The cost of ladies boots was 12s (shillings) 11d (pence), which, if I remember correctly, is about 65p in today’s money! However, when you think that some families had to manage on £1 (20 shillings) was a lot of money for a working class woman! Brixton’s Bon Marché department store opened in 1877. It claimed to be the first purpose built department store in the UK and was the brainchild…