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The War Years
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Deanna | Report | 18 Feb 2008 17:24 |
Yes our mums certainly knew how to make do and mend. |
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Jac | Report | 18 Feb 2008 17:39 |
This is a cracking thread - so interesting and it really makes you appreciate the comforts that we now enjoy and probably take for granted. |
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Julia | Report | 18 Feb 2008 17:46 |
These are beautiful memories and I have been following them from the beginning. |
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Deanna | Report | 18 Feb 2008 17:56 |
Me too Julia, I have memories come to me in fits and starts.... but they are there. |
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Abigail | Report | 18 Feb 2008 18:12 |
This is a fabulous thread! |
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Jean (Monmouth) | Report | 18 Feb 2008 19:37 |
I remember being evacuated from Folkestone a few days after Dunkirk. All schoolchildren wre expected to leave for parts unknown, and with the nearness of the Germans to invading we left in quite a hurry. I was 5 in the Jan of that year, and I can remember the wounded lying on the harbour quay and in the fish market, with local people trying to help. Dad was stationed nearby, I heard him say there were not enough nurses to help. I think that is where I got the ambition to become an army nurse. My sister had left school at 14, but came back to class so that she could be sent away with me as I was so young. We had a train journey to Monmouth, and then a lorry ride out to a village school where we were all allocated to various homes. It was a very strange experience for what was not much more than a baby. I could go on but the memories are endless. I wrote about some of this for a local show the year before last and was able to provide one lady with a photo of her mother that she had never seen. Jean |
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MacTheOldGeezer | Report | 18 Feb 2008 19:38 |
CRISPS |
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MacTheOldGeezer | Report | 18 Feb 2008 19:41 |
And only one flavour of course "POTATO" |
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Jac | Report | 18 Feb 2008 19:46 |
Lol Mac - |
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Susan719813 | Report | 18 Feb 2008 19:58 |
I remember the penny packets of broken crisps, greasy but wonderful, so they were still about well after the war. I preferred them to an ordinary pkt which was just as well. This was in London, from a local corner shop, in the 50s so don't know if they were about in the rest of the country then. |
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MacTheOldGeezer | Report | 18 Feb 2008 20:09 |
When sweets started coming back after the war in the late 40's, all my pocket money went on BG chewing gum |
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Joy | Report | 18 Feb 2008 20:21 |
Just to say thank you for the contributions, they are very interesting to read. |
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Gypsy | Report | 18 Feb 2008 20:28 |
Slightly off topic but, I found it really funny when my aunt told me that my grandmother used to 'read the Crystal Ball' to get food from the black market during the war! |
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MacTheOldGeezer | Report | 18 Feb 2008 20:37 |
As a kid I used to sell Newspapers every Saturday outside Isleworth Station |
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MacTheOldGeezer | Report | 18 Feb 2008 20:43 |
I had School dinners once for a couple of weeks while my Mum convalesced after a big operation. |
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~Lynda~ | Report | 18 Feb 2008 21:04 |
As awful as the war was, a lot of people seem to have such happy memories, I know whenever I have asked someone of there experience of the war, they mostly tell a happy tale before a bad one. I am really enjoying reading this thread, thank you to everyone who has contributed to it. |
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Carolyn | Report | 18 Feb 2008 21:42 |
Great thread, I have enjoyed reading every single item. |
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Mazfromnorf | Report | 19 Feb 2008 07:48 |
when you read through this I realise where mums habits come from I now know where flour and water paste comes from.We always have to cut buttons off old clothes and remove the zips.I visited the east before the berlin wall came down and the shops sold handles for kettles and tops for saucepans .The coats I bought the children came with extra material for patches and a bag of buttons .obviously things were made to last Maz |
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Jean Joy | Report | 19 Feb 2008 09:44 |
I think this has to be the best thread for a long time. |
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GinaS | Report | 19 Feb 2008 12:16 |
A great read - worth a nudge |
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