Colourful 1940s film posters found used as carpet underlay come up at auction in Cardiff

Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It, Day Time Wife, and perhaps even He Stayed for Breakfast may sound like certain late-night films common when Channel 5 first launched, but they are innocent titles from the 1940s cinema era.

They are some of the films represented in a huge array of posters discovered 32 years ago during the…

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