Yes, Steve. The little girl on the left is our Mother. And years ago you just asked for margarine - there weren't any brands as such - now that really makes me feel old! :(
Ration books that had to be filled in with your registration number MY job as the eldest can still remember all the numbers... Gas masks in a brown cardboard box which you were not allowed to go out without them .B :eek: arbed wire and land mines all along the beach in Bournemouth never learnt to swim till I was forty plus....Hey ho time moves on
An hotel in Bournemouth called the Granville Court, think it disapeared in the late 50s or early 60s. [ 21. October 2005, 09:22 PM: Message edited by: Marley Farley ]
Rosietu - still got my ration book which my grand-daughter took to school when they had a history lesson! And remember the gas masks and having to carry them everywhere. And although very young then, I also remember the chill that went through me when I heard the air-raid sirens and then the planes droning overhead! - something I hope today's children never experience. :eek: [ 22. October 2005, 12:04 PM: Message edited by: jjordie ]
A front room or parlour which was strictly for visitors and special occasions only! As a child I wasn't allowed in there but I remember one of my sisters having her boyfriend in there and I listened at the door!!! :eek:
Found in my 80+ mother's gifted scrap book from the late 30's and early 40's "I Charles Lounsburt, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do now make and publish this my last will and testament, in order, as justly as I may, to distribute my interests in the world among succeeding men��.First, I give to good fathers and mothers, but in trust for their children, nevertheless, all good little words of praise and all quaint pet names, and I charge said parents to use them justly but generously as the needs of their children shall require. I leave the children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every, the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the waters thereof, with the dragonflies that skim the surface of said waters, and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float high over the giant trees. And I leave to children the long, long days to be merry in, in a thousand ways, and the night and the moon and the train of the milky way, to wonder at, but subject nevertheless, to the rights hereinafter given to lovers; and I give to each child the right to choose a star that shall be his��. To lovers I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, or aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. And to those who are no longer children or youths or lovers I leave Memory����" Fran
I just inherited from my late aunt a letter to our gran from her brother dated 1911. It's written in the most beautiful copperplate hand writing and though short, is very sweet and signed - 'your loving brother G. Harrow'
I remember I had two maiden aunts who shared their parents house after they died so inherited a bit of a time capsule, & this was back in the early thirties when they inherited. Anyway what I was saying is that they also had huge & very horrid prickly cacti that had wonderful flowers now & then, as well as the aspadistras. The house stayed pretty much the same until their deaths in the late 50s & early 60s. I have often wondered what happened to all the plants.... :( :D
Torbay council bans topless sunbathing, [daily paper], just a few days before we arrived on holiday, [bugger] somebody found it offensive. but there was good news, common sense prevailed, and, they were re-instated. that was a long long time ago 197?
seen some very small aspidistras in a garden centre yesterday....�£8.00 each!! I was expecting to see them at 7/6d :D
