Living through WW2

[happy daze john in oz]

And calling for the fire brigade. Paragraph 36a , subsection 22 , Chapter 95 , of the fire regulations re the disposal of incendiary bombs. Only after donning regulation protective clothing. Please follow the instructions from the fire dept. by pressing the applicable button as advised. JS

If you require assistance press one,
If it is for the fire brigade press two
We are currently experiencing a delay of some twenty minutes,
Leave your number and we will call you when it is your turn.

You say there is a fire, where is it.

My car is on fire,
Where is it
In the street
How will we know which one
How many bloody cars do think are on fire, think you will find it alight, is that enough info?

[Keith at Tregenna]

As a child, you did not pass a phone booth without pushing button B on the off-chance in case the last caller had forgotten to collect their left-over coins. It worked more often than you might have thought and 4d bought you a lot of sweets.

The really naughty children stuffed a rag up the refund chute on the way to school and on the way home pulled it out hoping that Button B had been pressed in the meantime. If so the refunded money, having been blocked by the rag, came tumbling out!

K.

[Fouro]

Re # 48.

Passing through High Wycombe on occasions and having served my apprenticeship in a paper mill I noticed a few paper mills in the town and the area around it.
Apart from the mills many chair making establishments were scattered throughout the outskirts of the town.
The famous Windsor chairs were made here.

Click on to html below.

https://www.buckscountymuseum.org/mu...ef-history-of- high-wycombe/

Fouro.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Lived that way for years and many other places, know
Wycombe and her local history fairly well. The furniture
trade in Wycombe today has its roots in the activities
of the 19th century chairmakers who made High Wycombe
once the chair making capital of the world.

K.

[j.sabourn]

Keith good Jon there wasn’t a surname of rear to follow. One always learns something new on site. Thanks. JS

[Doc Vernon]

Just reading the post and must say that brings back some memories High Wycombe that was where my late Uncle Trevor who was in RAF loved for a long time, i recall going to visit him there, now dont ask me the address as it was Years ago LOL
They had a lovely House it was as i recall just outside the Town, with very nice Grounds .
A lovely place all nice and Green those days !
My Aunty (Betty or mat have been known as Elizabeth to Customers ?? ) later on i was told had a Laundry somewhere in High Wycombe i think!
Years that i recall things about but some i forget!
Thanks
Cheers

[Keith at Tregenna]

Sounds like the local villages of Naphill, Walters Ash and Lacey Green.
RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village
of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England.
It houses Headquarters Air Command, and was originally designed to
house RAF Bomber Command in the late 1930s. The station is also the
headquarters of the European Air Group.

I was there for a short time but more used to nearby RAF Halton at Wendover,
there was also RAF Daws Hill a Ministry of Defence site, located near Flackwell
Heath but was RAF, became more USAAF.

Keith.

[Trader]

Apparently, cigarettes and beer, were never rationed,
due to the effect that might have had on public moral.

K..

Never rationed but hard to come by especially cigarettes. I was only a kid (born 1934) but remember people queuing up outside tobacconists when a supply came in.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Shortages yes, agree not rationed. Much this way was black market, docks etc or
if not via sailors, army and local RAF. The Americans were a great supply later.

LOCAL: Memories of a Welsh childhood in Barry during Second World War:

#24: https://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/...-world-11.html

[j.sabourn]

#58... No filter tips in those days. Think they must have been brought out for the ladies much later. Know my old man used to curse them the filter tips that is. If could only buy such would tear them off before smoking.
At 15 years of age my fingers were covered in nicotine and had to use a pumice stone at frequent intervals. If my lungs were in the same state I should have been dead long ago.
JS