They created a fun read to help POWs

N-T-F committee

These men regularly caught the 9.35pm train from Luton to Harpenden during World War One. They decided to create a fun fund-raising journal to entertain fellow passengers at “4d a peek” and called it 'N-T-F' – standing for Nine Thirty Five. From an edition of four typewritten pages produced on June 15th, 1916, it grew to a 24-page journal selling for 2d and with a 3,000 circulation. It raised hundreds of pounds in the process to provide parcels for local prisoners of war held in Germany.