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[tsumi]

Thanks everyone for your contributions ,I will get the deeds to the house and see what is on them for 1939 also the Electoral registers.
Many thanks for your time
Tsumi

[commissionaire]

Hi Tsumi,
I read with great interest about your finding a Corps of Commissionaires jacket in your loft with a railway timetable of the 1930s, I work for the Commissionaires, today we are known as Corps Security but we still wear the uniform on M.O.D sites. I collect our Corps of Commissionaires items and have often wished I could locate one of the earlier jackets, the epaulets should be like a thick braid plat style with piping on the cuffs, do you still have it and would you be prepared to sell it.
With kind regards
Commissionaire.

[barryd]

I remember in the 60's/70's often passing the London Office of the Corps, in the Strand. Somewhere near Charing Cross Station if I remember correctly. Many of them ex-military. Always regarded them with respect.

[commissionaire]

Many thanks for your reply, were still going strong, heres an image of myself in the "full shout" at the Arms and Armour Fair, Earls Court.

[tsumi]

Hi Commissionaire,
The jacket is no longer .
We were clearing out a loft prior to having a loft extention and in the eves of the house was all sorts of packing bits of paper/cloth,we presumed it was to keep weather and birds out ,and when we had cleared it all, the jacket was the largest piece of material,it literally fell to pieces as we handled it,only by putting the bits together we knew what it was and a lot of elbow grease rubbing at the buttons left on.
You could have had it with pleasure if it had survived.
But thank you very much for the additional information of the jacket and button,s, very interesting.
Tsumi