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The War Years
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 19 Feb 2008 20:29 |
It has been known for elderly people to go into schools and give their memories particulatly through WW2. |
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Auntie Peanut | Report | 19 Feb 2008 22:22 |
What a great thread, so many interesting additions. |
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Moggie | Report | 19 Feb 2008 22:27 |
Last year my granddaughter had to dress up as an evacutee. My daughter-in-law left it to me to find her something to wear. In a charity shop I found a woollen cardigan shrunk by washing in too hot water which I thought would be ideal and a crochet beret. I made her a name tag out of brown paper which I attached to the cardigan with string and a safety pin and I made her a cardboard box which would have housed a gas mask. My piece de resistance was a ration book. Via the internet I found the image of an adult (beige) ration book, I bought a green folder (about 20p) in a shade of green which I thought was about right for a child's ration book, I didn't know if it would work but I managed to print off the front and back pages, I printed a few pages of coupons for the inside, stapled them together and her teachers thought it was the genuine article (as if they would know being thirty somethings). Last week my granddaughter came come with quite explicit instructions for building an Anderson and a Morrison shelter. She seems to think that they need to dig up the back garden while I am keeping a very low profile! |
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SilverLady | Report | 19 Feb 2008 22:35 |
I have enjoyed reading this thread and oh what joy especially as I was born after the war. At last something that I am to `young` to remember. LOL. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 19 Feb 2008 23:00 |
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Moggie | Report | 19 Feb 2008 23:24 |
a nudge for those,now living abroad who might like to contribute, |
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Auntie Peanut | Report | 20 Feb 2008 00:02 |
Ah......another memory.... |
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MacTheOldGeezer | Report | 20 Feb 2008 12:10 |
Trams, Trolley Buses, Breadmen delivering with hand carts that looked a bit like a Sedan chair with wheels, Milkmen with horse & carts, Rag & bone men with horse & carts, The Dupont Rep coming to collect the payments for clothes bought on the never-never (hire purchase), the Insurance Man from the PRU, the local Black Market Spiv (never left on the doorstep) |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 20 Feb 2008 13:38 |
aren't memories just wonderful Mac - that's what I like about this thread and the Childhood Memories thread also - I keep saying we should get them all published |
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Researching: |
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WhackyJackieInOz | Report | 20 Feb 2008 14:22 |
I remember having sugar on bread as Jam was unavailable. |
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Harry | Report | 20 Feb 2008 14:35 |
Milk was readily available. We used to have pobs very often(simply bread in hot milk). Milk at school in half pint bottles - threading the paper tops onto string. |
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Deanna | Report | 20 Feb 2008 14:37 |
Was it Brenda? |
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Deanna | Report | 20 Feb 2008 14:42 |
Hey Marion, that is a great idea. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 20 Feb 2008 14:42 |
Yes it was me who said it was a Morrison shelter. |
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Deanna | Report | 20 Feb 2008 14:54 |
Yes I was named after Deanna Durbin. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 20 Feb 2008 14:59 |
Deanna, |
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Deanna | Report | 20 Feb 2008 15:02 |
O.M.G.... Brenda are you kidding? |
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wonder. y | Report | 20 Feb 2008 15:13 |
I still have my ration book plus my ID card,had to have one even though I was just a baby, my mothers pass for the air raid Shelter, for the Raleigh Cycle Co; LTD,in Nottinham. but they were not making bikes, I think my mum worked on the parachutes, and did you know that the Raleigh was a prime target for the Germans, so they built a replica in wood a way, away, and it worked, Raleigh didn't get bombed, but my best memory was Christmas, somehow our parents made it magial, with very little, and the worst were those School dinners, |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 20 Feb 2008 15:49 |
Deanna, |
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Deanna | Report | 20 Feb 2008 16:09 |
Ah well, good luck 'dunroamin'.lol |