Category: Pre-WW2

Looking back to all those years from the late 20s until probably the 50s, I can’t believe how insensitive we were to the feelings of others, when we were happily living in our little bubble which was Briton. Today, young people would find it difficult to imagine a Britain where, apart from the docks, or… Continue reading Pre WW2, 1930 to ’39, in order, Sensitivity

What follows here, and several other posts in this vein, are narrow views of one person, not over-views determined by research. They are done mainly to determine how life has changed over 80 years. Take children; the phrase ‘children should be seen and not heard’, in its various forms, was a Victorian maxim people lived… Continue reading Pre WW2, !930 to 39, in Search of Progress, 1920 to2000 plus

My Aunt became a Christian Scientist, influenced by an artist friend who lived in Manchester. She passed her ideas on to my mother and after a while my mother became a wishy-washy version herself, never quite at the heart of the movement, but reading a lot, which was a necessity, because Mrs Mary Baker-Eddy based… Continue reading Pre WW2,1930 to ’39. in order, Christian Science as I Found It

Floss was a handyman at Ramsgate’s huge funfair called Wonderland. He worked on the Big Dipper. Early every morning he sent two cars round the track loaded with sand bags, watching the reaction of the wooden structure as the car went round, to gauge any weaknesses. Next it was my turn for a free, if… Continue reading Pre WW2, 1930 to ’39, in order, Enforced Holidays 2

Parents used to make strange decisions, with the best intentions and even self- sacrifice, but with little realisation what they were condemning their children to. Single parenting is not, and never was, easy, conscience has to be weighed against pragmatism, welfare, economic resources and what is possible. My mother decided, I should not be kicking… Continue reading Pre WW2, 1930 to 1939, in order, Enforced Holidays

PARIS Looking back to the 30s, and the way children accepted discipline almost unreservedly, and taking into account what we got up to in Paris, I am amazed that teachers still take School excursions today. One Easter we had a school excursion to Paris. We went everywhere and at or some places I think the… Continue reading PreWW2, 1930 to ’39, School Excursions

I have had to exercise discipline on others, I have been the recipient of it being implemented in almost every form, from lines to a leather belt, and more than anything I have had to exercise it on myself, often unsuccessfully. I therefore believe punishment in any form is transient, and in excess is self… Continue reading Pre WW”, 1930 to ’39, in order, Discipline as a Concept

We finally moved from the awful flat to a house we all called ’76’. My brother could now come home to be educated. 76 was close enough to 88, my grand- mother’s house, for her to help out when Willie had to work late. Unless one has never lived in a terrace house on the… Continue reading Pre WW2, 1930 to 39, in order, The Terraced Wedge