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30th May 2020, 03:13 PM
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Re: Pot menders
Waste of time for anyone waiting with the bucket and shovel that day Chris !!!, kt
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30th May 2020, 03:20 PM
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30th May 2020, 05:34 PM
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Unfortunate for you and the poor horse Chris, but unlike the modern vehicle the effluent would be biodegradable!
Where has all the fun gone?
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31st May 2020, 01:05 AM
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Re: Pot menders
"Saucepans to Spitfires" programme was started during wartime
and though many gave and from our town enough to help but,
somehow always found another pot to cook in.
K.
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31st May 2020, 01:55 AM
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If you had iron rails round your front garden they were taking away , and was said at time to make stern guns , at a stated cost of 5/- per gun. As said once before a stern had only 32 rounds in. It and could be fired single shot or in one burst. The movies I have watched their ammunition seems inexhaustible. They could also be used supposedly against low flying aircraft .my knowledge comes from being a member of the ATC, which was in longer than the Army and Sea Cadets. JS
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31st May 2020, 03:39 AM
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Most all of the above Posts remain with me in the mind Forever. They were the days Oh yes so many good and happy memories,which sadly will never happen again ,well not in my time that is!
Cotton Reel Tanks how i loved those.
Yes the Nuns when i and my little Sister were in Nazareth House in Cape Town Boarding School. Some good times but some hard times too.
There were plenty of those Dolls around and then they were good things, for the Young Girls to have . My Mum used to make them very well too.
Not mentioned here was the old Farm Loo, one massive Hole in the Ground covered with an old Wood Top, always felt very insecure and held on tight as i though i may fall in! LOL
Then still on the Farm we used to make our Wire Toys , quite large things and took some thought and lots of Bending and connections. I once made a nice Car that had Turning Wheels etc,all able to work with the Main Strong Wire to Guide the Car along,it was so much fun.
So could go on forever here but will take up too many pages.
Fun Days!
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31st May 2020, 06:31 AM
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#16 The days when glass marbles were a form of currency where their value increased by the number of games won , the same with conkers. JS
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31st May 2020, 07:33 AM
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i remember a few years ago working opposite nazy house crosby i was plastering around a front room window a young child 3/4 years old on a little plastic bike saying hello to school kids going home from school kids next thing this thing grabbed the child by the back of the neck and pulled him of the bike the bike spun up in the air and the kid screamed well i threw my handboard and trowel down and i was out the door the fella that did this spotted me coming over the road and ran in behind the door well what i said to him i would not repeat turning around 2 nuns stood and must have watched all that happened well i started on them the job i was working on got a hand delivered letter the next day but i wished the fella would have shown his face he would have eaten the letter all respect went from the so called good living holy people from that day the child was an orphan if i could have taken him home i would of? my blood is up just thinking about it.. jp
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31st May 2020, 08:30 AM
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#14, our railings and pots disappeared one day, all that was left were the stumps! however I did report not too long ago that most of the railings that were collected and taken away were never used, also cast iron pots not used, aluminium pots may have been used. The railing report I quite believe as many railings in the London Squares and places like Bath were re-installed in 1946, we never got ours back. Also the report advises that it was purely an exercise to make the public think that they had made a worthwhile contribution to the war effort and in essence was a moral booster, it seemed to work.
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31st May 2020, 12:43 PM
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[QUOTE=Keith at Tregenna;347895]"Saucepans to Spitfires" programme was started during wartime
and though many gave and from our town enough to help but,
somehow always found another pot to cook in.
K.
Think it was more than just pots and pans but,
the town also organised a full programme of
fundraising events and further Barry adopted
the destroyer HMS Vanessa in September 1942.
K.
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