Along with eloping poets, another sign of spring’s arrival is the start of cleaning duties. As we’re a curious bunch, we decided to do some digging to see what stories the newspaper archive contains about spring cleaning.

We found some terrific stories! But one of the best stories we saw is this article from 1929, which muses on the subject and thoughtfully explains that the ‘spring clean is the fruit of feminine intuition…’

Source: Western Daily Press – Tuesday 19 March 1929

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