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I watched a programme on Sunday about the whitsun tide walks which were common yrs ago (we still have them but not like they used to be)
I remembered walking as a child with new clothes on then at the end of the walk being given a bun and a drink. In the afternoon we all went into the next small town to watch their prossesion of witness. it was a family day out and we all looked forward to it. It also brought back memories of when my own daughter was in the prossesion and a held one of the ropes on the banner of the sunday school - it could be hard work - especially if it was windy. Ahhhhhh what lovely memories
Anyone like to share theirs? Pam

Hi Pam,
hope you enjoyed theweekend with your guest, rather a cold and soogy one here in the soft south east.
I dont remember the walks but do remember that Easter all the girls used to turn up at Sunday School in new gear with hats, probably showing my age there,
Annie

Hi Annie - yes we have enjoyed our weekend thank you - even the snow blizzard which lasted at least an hour at the Buxton raceway

Hope you enjoyed yours as well.
Much of the old footage which they showed in the documentary was in Derbyshire one of the narrators ( A man) spoke of the tradition for the boys to have their first pair of long trousers at whitsuntide he recalls being 14yrs old when he first had his - I dont think the youth of today would be impressed - do you?

Pam

Hi Pam,
when my brother was growing up in the 50's boys didn't get long trousers untill they went to Secondary School but they came after the summer holidays. Girls didnt wear trousers in those days either to school. Not nice on a frosty morning.
Nice Easter mainly reading in the warm, I did take a couple of good brisk walks with the dog between showers but missed out on my usual Easter blitz on the garden, that can wait for some warmer weather,
Annie

I lost my Dad last year and love to think of the memories of him when I was a child....I really miss him badly he was 83.

I still have both my parents around but still like to take a trip back to when we were children.
Sorry to hear about your loss - I am sure the memories help. xx Pam

Also sorrry to hear of your loss, my last family member of that age group is a 92 year old aunt, she is full of the tales that dad didnt tell us, Guess we all have our little secrets.
I have been doing family history since 1993 and she has come up with all sorts of gems.

By the way getting back to short trousers does any body remember liberty bodices and scholl knickers with a pocket in them, essential 50's wear, we used to keep our dinner money in the pocket and all the girls lifted their skirt up to pay on a Monday,
Annie

Oh bring back the liberty bodice, kept us nice and warm on those frosty walks to school.

I remember the big PE knickers too and you had to tuck your school skirt into them when it was a PE lesson. At least the boys wore shorts.

I used to keep my dinner money in my socks. Maybe we were poor and couldn't afford the scholl knickers.

Speaking of older relatives, I lost my wonderful uncle a few years ago but his Mum, my Nan, is still alive and is now 98. She has some tales to tell too, and her father was a vicar!!!

I remember pulling up the laces on my mums corset as a child, and having a army coat thrown over the top of our bed to keep us warm. Pam

That should have read school knickers, ours were bottle green, alright when you were five, not so good when I was 15 and doing a cross country run through a building site in marroon ones with a yellow shirt, we all hated that.
My granny wore very impressive corsets, she was magic, the static from her layers of underwear sparked in the dark when she undressed, on visits she slept in the same room as my sister and I.
She also used hat pins and convinced us she pushed them into her head,there was also the ritual with the old fashioned curling tongs which you heated over the range, her hair often had a brown singed patch and I can still smell the hair frizzling,
Annie