Wigan Album

Fascinating! I have a little 1930s-style ceramic armchair as an ornament on my fireplace that is just like the chair on the left-hand advert. I often wish I had a real one as its shape look so comfortable!

By chance I found an old invoice the other day. It was from Waring & Gillows in Station rd dated Feb 1975 for a three piece suite and it cost £185. Just shows how prices had gone up then.

They refer to settees and easies. I've never come across the term easies, strictly speaking they aren't settees either. I was told that sofas have feet (or castors) and settees have legs. The term Settee comes from the empire days in the far east when furniture was raised off the floor so that scorpions and snakes wouldn't hide there.

Sgt Pepper, I think the chairs are the "easies"....we always called them "easy chairs" when I was a child as opposed to kitchen chairs or dining table chairs. Barbra Streisand in the song "Evergreen" sings of "Love, soft as an easy chair".