M&S Ealing Café Bar 1940

Ealing store Café Bar 1940 - Flora Solomon was awarded an OBE in 1946 to recognise her work to tackle social hardship and poverty. As 'the Lady of the Ladle', Flora was the driving force behind the government-sponsored British Restaurant system, which grew out of the M&S Café Bar model and provided cheap, hot and nourishing meals for people disadvantaged by the War © M&S Company Archive