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Offline Lydart

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Re: The past is a different country. They do things differently there.
« Reply #270 on: Thursday 29 November 07 22:00 GMT (UK) »
Liberty bodices ... they buttoned (and thus unbuttoned) down the front, so they were in effect a tight fluffy weskit worn under the blouse ...

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Enid Blyton (wasn't she a man ?) wrote what seemed like hundreds of books for 5 - 14 year olds ... and as a child I was only allowed one per week from the library ... the other books had to be something different !   
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Re: The past is a different country. They do things differently there.
« Reply #271 on: Thursday 29 November 07 22:06 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Lydart on Thursday 29 November 07 22:00 GMT (UK)
Liberty bodices ... they buttoned (and thus unbuttoned) down the front, so they were in effect a tight fluffy weskit worn under the blouse ...

Yours had buttons down the front?.....how bizzare!  ;D ;D ;D

Mine were pull over the head style......with tabs around the bottom with rubber buttons sewn on the tabs.......Much more stylish than those button down the fron jobs.... :o

And......they looked so good with the navy blue knicks!

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Re: The past is a different country. They do things differently there.
« Reply #272 on: Thursday 29 November 07 22:07 GMT (UK) »
Mine were over the head ones too, Indi - I've never seen button down the front ones - were they very posh  ::)
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Re: The past is a different country. They do things differently there.
« Reply #273 on: Thursday 29 November 07 22:08 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Lydart on Thursday 29 November 07 22:00 GMT (UK)
Enid Blyton (wasn't she a man ?) wrote what seemed like hundreds of books for 5 - 14 year olds ... and as a child I was only allowed one per week from the library ... the other books had to be something different !   

No - she was a married woman - albeit unhappy and eventually left her husband and kids.

Loved her books, though.

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Re: The past is a different country. They do things differently there.
« Reply #274 on: Thursday 29 November 07 22:09 GMT (UK) »
Oh thats sad ...
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
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« Reply #275 on: Thursday 29 November 07 22:11 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Lydart on Thursday 29 November 07 22:09 GMT (UK)
Oh thats sad ...

What?...Liberty bodices...navy blue knicks?....

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Re: The past is a different country. They do things differently there.
« Reply #276 on: Thursday 29 November 07 22:12 GMT (UK) »
An outline here. I'm sure there's more elsewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton

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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk<br />Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk<br />Harrison: London; Pollock<br />Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx<br />Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk<br />Rogers: London; Bartlett: London<br />Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants<br />Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London

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Re: The past is a different country. They do things differently there.
« Reply #277 on: Thursday 29 November 07 22:15 GMT (UK) »
My Liberty Bodices pulled over my head but never quite married up with my drawers.... so there was a nasty draft in the middle  >:(

I never read Enid.... her stories allways seemed so twee and not of my world.  I love Biggles though.... I named my buick Biggles and we go flying (along the highway, that is)  ;)
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Re: The past is a different country. They do things differently there.
« Reply #278 on: Thursday 29 November 07 22:16 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: indiapaleale on Thursday 29 November 07 22:11 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Lydart on Thursday 29 November 07 22:09 GMT (UK)
Oh thats sad ...

What?...Liberty bodices...navy blue knicks?....



Did Enid Blyton write about them as well  ::)
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