Entertainment - Frizes Leasowes 18/5/12

We’d go to the cinema in Doncaster. I remember half way through they’d come round and sprayed because of the smell!

There used to be serial films – you had to go the next week to see the next instalments - usually westerns.

Family and Home Life - frizes Leasowes 18/5/12

I remember my first sliced bread – it was wonderful.

We had green pea powdered soup.

My Grandmother used to make   ginger beer in stone bottles.

Mostly the shops weren’t open on Sundays.  If you bought any tinned goods they charged you an extra penny.

There was usually half day closing in the week.

We had a copper boiler for washing the clothes.

We used sunlight soap and a board and mangle.

I remember my Mum drying the clothes in front of the fire and they caught alight!

As a married couple with lived with my Mum and dad and we had a small tv on the sideboard.

We made some of our own clothes.

You had to still save your clothing coupons.

Childhood - Frizes Leasowes 18/5/12

When sweets came off rationing I had buttered brazils.

Someone worked at the Bassetts factory and used to bring home the misshapen jelly babies- they were melted down into jelly. At the Coronation street party we had loads of jelly!

We played donkey on the wall, five stones, break the camel’s back, hopscotch, skipping and we’d use the hula hop to skip with too.

Coronation - Frizes Leasowes 18/5/12

We had a party at school and I went dressed in an Irish costume. Others went in Welsh, Scottish and English costume.

Dad decorated the garden in red, white and blue.

We went to London afterwards to see all the decorations, the flags and things and where the important people had sat on the seats.

Everyone had street parties; everyone was friendly and mucked in. You left your doors open and you’d have a key on some string and you’d pull it through the letterbox to unlock the door. You never locked your back door.

I was 6 years old and went to Harts Hill School in Oakengates. Everyone had a cup  made of blue glass.

I had a long silver box with chocolates in it given to me in Sheffield where I was living.

Festival of Britain - Frizes Leasowe 18/5/12

We got married the year before the festival and because we couldn’t afford a honeymoon, we saved up and went to the Festival of Britain the following year,

Lots of people couldn’t afford to go to the Festival.

They were hard times – you made your own entertainment, especially on the piano. We’d sing “Lily of Laguna”, and my Gran would give me halfpenny to sing it.  

Childhood - Frizes Leasowes

Tied a rope to the outside toilet to trap nanny inside

Deflated tyres on dad’s taxi to blow up balloons

Free school dinners with “f” for free – “p” for paid I didn’t want a “f” ticket – mum told me off because I did not want an “f” by my name

Took wheels of sisters pram to make a go kart, but got told off

Coronation - Frizes Leaowes

One person remembers the coronation on TV.

I had a coronation cup & saucer, had a new black and white TV

Lots of glamour – fairytale princess

Went to uncle & aunties house to watch the coronation on TV, it was black & white, coloured sheet of plastic over screen – 3 coloured strips – to make it look as if in colour