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Natalie Severn
Chief Inspector
Username: Severn
Post Number: 584
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 5:13 pm: |       |
I have only recently remembered about this method my grandmother had of cleaning canvass tennis shoes and my fathers cricket gear.
I know it was a very old tin block of chalk like substance that had to be dampened with a sponge or cloth to get stains off and leave shoes gleaming white.It started me wondering if this was what JtR used or something similar after all they played tennis and cricket in late Victorian England and wore canvass shoes to do so.Obviosly it didnt disolve stains but covered them entirely in a chalky film.It probably absorbed some of the dirt too.
Does anyone else Know anything about it?
I was thinking too that a "tin" of such substance would have been quite easy to carry around.Or maybe they even sold it in a push up block like they once sold shaving soap?
Anyway it may help to solve the mystery of the man with "snowy white "hands seen by the PC near Mitre Square[maybe he should have said "chalky white hands"!
Natalie |
Chris Michetti
Detective Sergeant
Username: Pl4tinum
Post Number: 100
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 11:53 pm: | |
Didn't Druitt play cricket? Then again, he wouldn't need Blanco since he was a schoolteacher and probably had a lifetime supply of chalk...
Chris 
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