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Gladstone Bag, Good Stories and Bad.  They've sometimes been called 'carpet bags' and 'doctor's bags', but their real name is 'Gladstone bag' and they were originally used by doctors and other Victorian men and women to carry larger accoutrements of their profession. Gladstone bags are built on a rigid frame and have two equal sized inner compartments, with a lid that opens wide and allows easy access to the contents, as well as making it easier to withdrawn large and sometimes awkwardly shaped items from the Gladstone bag.

The best are made from leather, although recently various other materials have become popular, primarily for bags intended for fashion accessories as opposed to the Gladstone bag's traditional role as a holdall for equipment used by doctors and other professionals in the course of their working day.

The first bag was designed by J. G. Beard, working in London, who named the bag after the Prime Minister of the Day, William Ewart Gladstone. Bags bearing the PM's name became hugely popular throughout Victorian times and well into the 20th century.

But sadly the Gladstone bag has been linked to many macabre incidents, such as murders (Jack the Ripper, thought by some to be a doctor, was believed to have a Gladstone Bag), and the same type of bag featured in a murder case in 1924 when a young woman was killed and some of her blood-stained clothing was discovered in a Gladstone bag in a London railway station luggage office.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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