I found this advert in 'Cambridge Mountaineering' 1944. I found this slightly battered journal in a charity shop. One thing this has that my Ladies' Alpine Club journals do not (more to come from these in the future) is adverts. This one is for a shop in London which made bespoke climbing boots. I love the illustration. I found a fantastic article about the shop in Sports Illustrated 1969 (O'Brian, C. An Urbane Residence in Central London is Actually a Shop for Mountaineers. Sports Illustrated. Vol. 31, Issue 16). Here are some extracts: Close by, at No. 54, a brass plate admits ROBERT LAWRIE LTD. (LATE OF BURNLEY), ALPINE EQUIPMENT SPECIALISTS! A subplate announces a complicated set of business hours and, were it not for these two quiet signs, there would be no indication whatever that the dignified London terrace house conceals a thriving mountaineering equipment shop run by the triumvirate of Mr. Lawrie and his wife Ursula with their Yorkshire-born secretary, Miss