WHEN Ross Bullock, Business Adviser at the Bolton Business Support Unit at the Enterprise Centre in Washington Street, was on holiday in Cornwall a few weeks ago, he visited a horticultural museum in the Lizard area, and among all the old gardening tools and other implements, he noticed among pictures on the walls this cartoon.
It is dated Bolton, June 1921, and is signed "Geo. Spencer". It is obviously a gardening cartoon, and is of one gardener showing his huge cauliflower (I think!) to another gardener, whose plant is only a fraction of the size. The caption reads: "The sort of thing that leads to an allotment murder".
I have asked at the Archives and Local Studies Department at the Central Library if they had heard of George Spencer (and looked in the Evening News' files) but all to no avail.
So who was the cartoonist, and how did his cartoon end up in a Cornwall museum?
Can anyone help with more details?
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