Margaret was married on January 31st 1945 and spent her honeymoon in London staying at the Union Jack Club - a hotel for service personnel and their familes at Kings Cross. Immediately after the honeymoon Ted and Margaret rejoined their units and did not see each other again for over a...
Margaret talks about how her family hurriedly arranged her wedding to Ted before he was transferred overseas during World War II. Margaret was 19 years old and Ted was 20.
This week's topic is "What happened when you you turned 21?" As Margaret said, when she turned 21 she had been married for two years and her twin boys were six months old!
Margaret recalls an incident that still makes her laugh...
Margaret talks about her favourite books and her special favourite - Arabella by Georgette Heyer.
Margaret became engaged to Ted in December 1944 and they were married on 31st January 1945. There was no ring and no money to spare, but their friends gave them an engagement party at the local Toch H club.
Margaret's argument when she first met Ted, eventually led to love, not at 1st sight, but at 5th sight. They were engaged at Xmas 1944 and then married on 31st January 1945, when Ted was on embarkation leave prior to leaving to serve in the Navy in Australia.
Margaret shares the story of her first kiss which made her angry. It was her 2nd kiss that led to her first love which resulted in marriage and 60 years of happiness.
Margaret tells us what the fashions were like after WWII, when she wore cotton and then crimplene dresses, nylon stockings and spent 15 guinneas on a beautiful dress to wear to a dinner dance. She made most of her own clothes and the clothes for her young children. Complete layettes were...
Margaret tells us that she didn't have many days off while working for her father in 1943, however she and her sister were silver medallist dancers and attended the school dances (even though they had left school). They also went for walks and did a lot of reading. When she joined...
Margaret talks about being paid 5 shillings per week when she worked for her father in the early 1940's. When she joined the WRENS in 1943 she was paid 16 shillings per week and her 1st uniform was provided. Her parents gave her a 'best' suit for Xmas and she describes...
Margaret talks about joining the Wren's, her initial training period and her posting to the small village of Eglington. She was a Signal Messenger, delivering messages by car and bike. Her most memorable delivery was to a young man who at the end of the shift refused to sign for the...
Margaret talks about her first job as a handicraft instructor......
This is a story worth hearing. Margaret tells of her experience as a secondary student in Lincoln, UK during WWII and how her parents decided that it would be safer if she and her sister were evacuated to Canada....
Margaret talks about embroidery which has been a lifelong hobby..
Margaret recalls her school days and talks about her best subject at school...
Margaret talks about sport at school in Lincoln, UK during the late 1930's and early 1940's.
Margaret tells the tale of her first day at school and everything seemed better after that... Copied from St Giles Secondary School Occasional Papers
The first school Margaret attended was St Giles Infants School in Lincoln, Great Britain in the 1930s. Margaret recalls her first school and shows how times were different then.
In the days before television (and when the radio was a luxury) children played games indoors and out. Margaret recalls the games she played at home in the evenings during the 1930s and 1940s in Linclon, UK. The picture shows Paper Dolls - of Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth) and her...
