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Old-Fashioned Family H My earliest memories of seaside holidays are of Bridlington in the 1940s when I was about seven years old. I remember building sand castles – or rather, my dad doing the building and me fi lling the moat from a red tin bucket. I had a blue nylon elasticated bathing costume which, when you went into the sea, used to fi ll with water so you felt like a wobbly jelly when you came out and had to pull the leg away to let the water out. I remember three steam boats – Yorkshireman, Bridlington Queen, which was my favourite, and Yorkshire Belle, on which I remember being stuck for four hours on a sand bank and almost everybody being sea sick. My most vivid memory is of the landlady of the boarding house. She was called Miss Perkins and had grey hair in steel curlers under a grey hairnet. She wore a wrap-round overall and black lace-up shoes. And she was very strict. In those days, food was rationed so ration books had to be taken on holiday and handed to the guest house proprietor. Miss Perkins took your ration book off you before you were allowed over the threshold, let alone your room. No wet or sandy shoes were allowed upstairs and there was no running water in the bedroom – you left a big jug outside your door at night and somebody fi lled it with hot water about 7.30am. Breakfast was at 8.30am sharp and consisted of a skinny sausage about half an inch thick, a teaspoonful of “scrambled egg” (eggs were rationed PHOTO: HISTORIC IMAGES - LANCASHIRE to one per person per week) which had probably been mixed with potato, half a slice of fried bread cut very thin and a tiny piece of crozzled bacon, so thin it must have been see-through before it was fried. Tea was also rationed so it was what my dad called “fortnight tea” – too weak. Rooms had to be vacated by 10am each morning and you weren’t allowed back until tea-time. Tea was two slices of bread with butter put on and then scraped back off again with the back of a knife, and a teaspoon of jam on a dish to be shared by everyone at the table. There was no ice-cream, rock or candy fl oss as all the ingredients were rationed. And yet, in spite of all this, I remember holidays as being very happy times and we always went back to the same boarding house – perhaps it was a case of better the devil you know …..! I also remember spending a weekend in Blackpool around 1951, or 52, to see the illuminations. This is something I will St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Page 12 email: offi ce@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
Holidays never forget. All my favourite story-book characters – Snow White, Cinderella and Bambi – came to life and danced before my very eyes. They went on for miles and you could travel the whole length of them on an illuminated tramcar and the lights looked even better in the rain, the trams were great galleons of light sailing down a street of refl ected colour. Yes, Blackpool was truly unforgettable. People nowadays think of the 1950s as sad, dark and dreary but they were quite the opposite. Gardens were bright with fl owers, women and girls wore pretty fl owered dresses or circular skirts with puff-sleeved blouses, while men and boys wore Fairisle pullovers and everyone wore a hat and ladies wore gloves. Everywhere there seemed to be renewal, happiness and, most of all, a sense of peace after the long war. Families were together again and able to enjoy the simple pleasures of life again. And this is just what we did. Here is an old-fashioned prayer from an old-fashioned prayer book: O God our Father We would thank thee for all the bright things of life, Help us to see them, and to count them, and to remember them, That our lives may fl ow in ceaseless praise Amen Rev John Henry Jowett (1846-1923) Sylvia Bennett JOHNSON JOINERY & HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES LTD KITCHENS & BATHROOMS DESIGNED, SUPPLIED & FITTED INTERNAL & EXTERNAL JOINERY LAMINATE & SOLID WOOD FLOORING DECKING SERVICES INCLUDE: UPVC & WOOD WINDOWS & DOORS WALL & FLOOR TILING GENERAL PLUMBING SERVICES GENERAL HANDYMAN SERVICES; ONE-OFF JOBS OR A LIST OF REPAIRS FRIENDLY & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE TEL/FAX: 0114 2817022 M: 07929188450 E: aj27@blueyonder.co.uk St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Page 13 email: offi ce@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
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