Hand me downs

[John Pruden]

JIM i was posh i had sargents stripes on the sleave of my blankets?jp

[alf corbyn]

my first pair of long trousers were my sisters old wartime slacks, and did I get the urine taken out of me at school

[Captain Kong]

I used to wear my aunty Florences ATS Tunic jacket, when I went to school
and her army shoes, they were flat, not high heels, with crepe soles, I found that I could outrun any one in those instead of my clogs.
A 1st WW Army overcoat was always welcome in winter with three of us in a bed. As good as any duvet.
Brian

[John Pruden]

i don't know why you are all moaning i went to school as a japanese admiral thanks to the f....n army and navy storesjp

[Jim Brady]

Three in a bed hey Brian, 6 in our house 3 at the top and 3 at the bottom.I remember one of my older brothers telling a yarn about when he first went away to sea he couldn't get used to sleeping on his own and he was jumping into his cabin mates bunks alongside them he'd never slept on his own before.He told that story for the sake of my cousin,she was visiting us from Canada and wanted to know where we all slept when we were kids,the story of jumping into bunks on his first trip was the follow up,she was in bulk with laughter I think she believed him.
Regards.
Jim.B..

[leratty]

Tony, we did not have TV, there were pretty good radios in our prefects rooms though. Most of us had crystal sets which the bunk-bed spring was the aerial you fitted the bulldog grip from the set to it & you had those old Bakelite head phones so hard on your ears we listened to the serials & radio Luxemburg . A couple of older guys had portable valve radios, one I remember was like a small case I think it was leather like crocodile the size of a portable type writer? He just shut it up & it switched off we thought it was the ants pants until a boy came with the first transistor radio we had seen, could not believe it either.