Newspaper clipping taken from page 2 of the South Wales Echo titled 'Customers queue for Tenovus bargains', reporting on fundraising by the charity, Cardiff, 22 May 1967

Description

An article with photograph of the Tenovus bargain shop. The photograph has the caption: “The Tenovus Bargain Store was doing brisk business (above) soon after it opened in The Hayes, Cardiff, today. The store will be open all week, raising money for Tenovus charities. Target is £1000-and the way the purchases were being made today bode well for achieving that target.”

An article five days later stated that they expected to double their target of £1,000.

The Tenovus Cancer Care website states:

“In 1943, Tenovus was founded by ten businessmen…. Initially, the charity funded a wide range of projects in the local area.

These ranged from building the Sunshine House for Blind Babies just outside Cardiff, to donating a washing machine to a widow with seven children who had lost an arm.

In the 1960s, Tenovus embarked on a project which was to influence our work for the next 40 years. We built the Tenovus Institute for Cancer Research in Cardiff which carried out vital research into the causes of cancer.

Since then, we have concentrated our efforts on cancer and are now recognised for our pioneering work.”

Source: www.tenovuscancercare.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/ , accessed 9/5/17.

Volunteers help in their shops, offices and cancer support services, and with special events.

Transcription:

Customers queue for Tenovus bargains

BARGAIN - HUNTERS queued for more than two hours outside a former supermarket in Cardiff early today to buy goods marked well below supermarket prices.

Tenovus has taken over the building, in The Hayes, Cardiff, as a bargain store in a week-long money-raising effort for Tenovus charities.

The chairman, Mr. C. E. Banham, said it was Tenovus’s largest sale ever and the first one they had held in a shop. The target is £1,000.

Tenovus Ladies’ Committee, headed by Mrs David Cole, have been collecting the goods for the last three months. Pricing them and preparing the shop took 10 days.

Among the more unusual items on sale today were some wrought-iron gates, Victorian collar boxes, an Army camp bed and an antique grandfather clock priced at £18.

Moleskin hat

Later in the week, a genuine Welsh moleskin hat will go on sale-a good apply for a collector. “We have got to get it valued first,” said the president, Mr. David Cole. Mr. Cole was hoping the sale would make about £400 in its first day.

To cope with the rush, 20 members of James Howell's sales staff have given up their day off to man the many clothes stands. Window dressers from Howell’s also gave up their time to arrange the displays.

One attractive sales lady on the book and record stand said she was greatly enjoying the work. “I wish we were even busier,” she said.

From Microform, Local Studies, Cardiff Library.
Image created by The British Library Board.
Copyright: Media Wales.