Nostalgia keeps Bertie Beetle bags alive

By John-Paul Moloney
Updated April 18 2018 - 10:42pm, first published February 19 2013 - 12:02pm

For a quarter of a century this humble blue showbag has resisted the economic forces that have driven up the cost of virtually everything else inside the nation's showgrounds and beyond.

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