1940s
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Stacey
@xstitcher (39030)
• Petaluma, California
19 May 24
Another book from my elementary school-hood, and another that I read several times, though not for several years.
It will be a fast read, but enjoyable.
I had forgotten that the story was supposed to have taken place so long...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
23 Dec 19
Three little children at Christmas,
our Daddy away at the war,
Hitler had bombed the supply ships
there weren't many goods in the store.
Our Mum was very inventive,
when we were asleep in the night
from scraps she made horses and...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
13 Mar 19
We take toilet paper for granted nowadays, but it was very different when I was a child.
Any kind of paper was scarce in the 1940s due to WW2, so we didn't have the luxury of proper toilet paper. Instead we used newspaper cut...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
20 Dec 17
Three little children at Christmas,
our Daddy away at the war,
Hitler had bombed the supply ships
there weren't many goods in the store.
Our Mum was very inventive,
when we were asleep in the night
from scraps she made horses and...
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54 people
Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
2 May 17
When I was a child in the 1940s our family didn't have a car, but our parents had a novel way of getting around.
They had an old bicycle with two seats, one behind the other, which was called a tandem. They had used this when...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
28 Apr 17
When I was a child in the 1940s the only forms of entertainment available to us were the radio and the 'Pictures'. This latter you would know as the cinema or movies.
These were the days before television and the highlight of...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
18 Jan 17
I remember longing to start school as my two older sisters were already there, and I hated being left behind. The school was only at the end of our street, and I used to follow them there. When those big gates shut in my race I...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
15 Jan 17
@hereandthere wrote a post in which one of the questions she posed was whether we used pens or pencils to write with at school. My answer was that we used neither. For the first few years of my school life we used a slate and...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
12 Jan 17
Life for my grandparents was very different from how things are today.
When I was a child in the 1940s they had no electricity or indoor plumbing. The toilet was at the bottom of the garden and looked just like you see in the...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
24 Jul 16
My sisters and I were children during WW2, and England was under attack. We lived near a couple of industrial towns which were often targeted by the enemy.
When we heard the wailing sirens warning us of an air raid we knew we...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
28 Apr 16
As a child in the 1940s I remember watching in disbelief as my mother made her legs dirty. I couldn't understand it as she was so fussy about me and my sisters being clean.
Material of any kind was in short supply during World...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
15 Apr 16
@TRBRocks has written about his childhood home, so I thought I would do the same.
I was born in an upstairs room in a small terraced house in England. 'Terraced' means that it was in a row of identical houses, all attached to...
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James Higgins
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
21 Feb 16
I just read a @jaboUK discussion asking "Have you ever been on a train" and it triggered may memories of train travel when I was between the ages of four and seven. I lived in Texas with my mother. World War II was raging in...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
30 Jan 16
When I was a little girl in the 1940s, we were only able to have a bath once a week. We lived in a two-up, two-down house, with a kitchen at the back. There was no bathroom, no hot water on tap, and daily washing took place...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
23 Dec 15
I did a post a couple of days ago about the make-do Christmas tree my mother made when I was a child. Some of you were interested enough to ask to me to write more about that time, so here goes..
Children today take it for...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
20 Dec 15
During my childhood in WW2 goods were in short supply, and that included Christmas trees. Dad was a soldier away at the war, so it was up to my mother to do the best she could to ensure that we three little girls had a good...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
17 Oct 15
We didn't have many toys when I was a child in England in the 1940s. World War 2 was on for half of that decade, and things were scarce, as they were for years afterwards..
A lot of our toys were home made, and we mostly...
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