Remember when...

[DianaCanada]

This reminds me of my mother saying she made herself sick gorging on bananas after the war.  She left England as a War Bride in Feb 1946 so wondering if they were available by then or this happened once she got to Canada.
I still have her ration book.  I took it to school when we were doing something about WWII.

Here you are Diana -Dec 30 1945.



https://www.ft.com/content/c275b5b2-7a73-11de-8c34-00144feabdc0

Add - and this will take us all back to Pathe News

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/yes-we-have-some-bananas

 

Thank you, Gadget, just thought of something - I might have her old diary from that period, will have a look.
I wonder if milk was rationed?  She spent the war years with her aunt and uncle, who had a dairy.

I have my mother’s 1945 diary but no mention of bananas on the 30th or 31st.
Now that I think about it, I think it was when he got here that she gorged on bananas.  Not that we grow them here  .

[DianaCanada]

In her entry for December 9, 1945 she wrote that it was their first drive in their car in six years.
As I mentioned they ran a dairy so they did have vehicles for their business.

[Treetotal]

I was the first child in the Family to be born after the NHS was introduced. We were all born at home and my Mum used to tell us stories about the local midwife called Mrs. Edwards who delivered my older Brother and Sister, she said that when she was in labour, the midwife would sit by the fire knitting, breaking wind and Singing "Onward Christian Soldiers"    She charged half a crown and could be seen regularly calling at the off license on her way home with a couple of bottles of brown ale clutched to her ample busom   

Carol

[Viktoria]

Perhaps you know my story if the Midwife who delivered  me turning up at my wedding.
She always liked to attend “ her babies’” weddings.
She turned up at the reception, walked in just as my brother in law ( best man) was going to give his speech.
He started off with —“ Well, I have heard of shotgun weddings but this is
ridiculous !”
 
Viktoria.

[coralc]

I loved watching the Railway Children, you have reminded me of them. I remember my uncle scolding my auntie who unthinkingly tidied the magazine rack while listening to the radio! No housework on a Sunday!Apparently God granted Baptist/Congregational housewives an exemption for cooking and dishes! A man's Sunday midday dinner was sacred!

[coralc]

My dad, a carpenter, made our "guider", with old pram wheels, a rope to steer with, and some very high class red Lino ( with yellow roses on it) to sit on, I felt it was the local equivalent of a Rolls Royce, even had a yellow trimmed, green oval tin number plate with "7" on it. I'm 72, lived in Australia since 1958, and can still remember it so clearly!!

[coralc]

I can remember cutting the squares of newspaper and punching a hole in the corner of a bunch to thread string through , so it could be tied in a loop to hang by the loo. We had a roll of toilet paper which replaced the newspaper when visitors were expected, even when quite young I knew that we pretended that was our usual standard, and, as the only girl, I was responsible for quick loo paper retrieval if unexpected visitors arrived!

[coralc]

My brother was born in August 1950, I remember walking hand in hand to the ( very nearby) corner shop with the ratio book to buy our sweeties, and he asked how much a penny bar of chocolate was!  Must have been at least 1952. A "yellow man" , a cushiony honeycomb like sweetie, was a ha'penny!

[Treetotal]

A man on a tricycle came round where we lived, he rang his bell and shouted "Ice Cream" you could but a cornet or an ice-cream sandwich, small or large. The rag and bone man was also a regular visitor to the area too, a few rags could be exchanged for a colouring book, a balloon or a windmill on a stick. he would should "Rag bone, any old iron, rag bone"  A man selling fruit and veg on a handcart was always a favourite, he would often sell bags of damaged fruit that people bought to make fruit pies.
Carol