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stapled together: the conductor had a hand-held rack that had a bundle of each type of ticket. He (always "he") would pull out a ticket and punch it to show its validity, i.e. to show how far the passenger was allowed to travel. The rip in each example of a ticket shown here was caused by the staple. A conductor issuing tickets can be seen on the Colwyn Bay page. The lowest fare in 1952 was a "penny-ha'penny", also known as "three ha'pence".
lcber01f The 2d ("tupenny") ticket was also used to pay for
a dog to be taken on board. lcber02f lcber02r lcber05f lcber05r The reverse of the 6d ticket had an ad for "Baxter's Bon".
The "Bon" was probably short for "Bon Marché", [24]The Baxter family owned both Clare's and Baxter's Bon.
The Bon was in a sense the men's department of Clare's.
lcber06f lcber06r The 9d. fare would take a passenger from one end of the line to the other. lcber09f There was a 4d. ticket, and there may have been others that I didn't get samples of.
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