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Part Three 4 Imagine me a School-Maam

Posted on January 16, 2015 by petegrafton

Part Three Chapter Four Imagine Me a School-Maam “I always feel so sorry for kids and adults with disinterested and indifferent parents” _____ Mum has been down in Salisbury for a fortnight, and has just returned by train to … Continue reading →

Posted in Britain Austerity 1940s, Feminism, Gender Studies, Letters, Porton Chemical and Biolgical Warfare Centre, Social and Political History, Womens History | Tagged Admin Block Porton, Alderman Road Knightswood, Bournemouth, Cadena Salisbury, Captain Frankie Bookmaker, CDEE, Coco Chanel, Dornoch, Elsa Schiaparelli, Emergency Teachers Training Scheme, Hengistbury Head, I Know Where I'm Going, ICI, Ideal Boiler, Kings College Newcastle, Leauge of Health and Beauty, Marlborough, Mary Bagot Stack, Peely-wally, Peter Scott, Porters Avenue Dagenham, Salisbury Market Square, Scottish Industrial Exhibition 1949, Tattie howling, The Good Intent Chelsea, Thirkleby, Thirsk, Typhoo Tea, WEA Salisbury, Winterbourne Gunner, Woman's Hour, York Races 1949 | 1 Comment

Part Two 10 Almost Home and Noel

Posted on December 5, 2014 by petegrafton

Part Two Chapter 10: Almost Home and Noel In the nine week gap in this collection of correspondence between Mum and Len, this is the first letter of Mum’s since her last one of 18 April, 1948. Len is … Continue reading →

Posted in Cairo 1940s, Feminism, Gender Studies, Letters, Social and Political History, Suez Canal Zone, Womens History | Tagged 156 Transit Camp Suez Canal Zone, Achininver, Almaza Egypt, Barker and Dobsons, Bayne & Ducketts, BOAC flying boat, Central School of Speech and Drama London, Clydebank, Cowal Games, Cyprus, Dornoch, Eastern Exchange Port Said, Garden City Cairo, Glasgow, Glencoe Village, King Farouk, Liverpool, Moascar, Muirkirk, Naples, Olympic Games London 1948, Operation Polly, Port Fouad, Port Said, RADA, Regent Street Polytechnic, Renfrew Airport, S.Y.H.A., Short Solent Flying Boat, Spam, Struie, TEK Suez Canal Zone, US Naval Personnel in Egypt | Leave a comment

Part Two 3: Life as Medicine

Posted on October 17, 2014 by petegrafton

Part Two 3: Life As Medicine “Some of the English girls don’t seem alive at all – they take life as a sort of medicine.” – Vera, a young Russian, quoted by Len, 28 August, 1947. 18 … Continue reading →

Posted in Cairo 1940s, Feminism, Gender Studies, Letters, Social and Political History, Suez Canal Zone, Womens History | Tagged Anthrax, Clement Attlee, Cowal Games, David Kirkwood, De Lessops Monument Port Said, Dornoch, Edinburgh Festival 1947, Fleetwood, Foreign Service Allowance, Fort William, Gezira, Glencoe, Groppis, Gruinard Bay, Gruinard Island, Ishmailia, Journal d'Egypte, Mahmud Nurqrashi, Morecambe, Musky, Porton Down, RSA certificate, Shaibah, Sphinx magazine, ss Empire Rival, Suez Canal Zone, Supplies and Services Bill, Tito, Willie Gallacher, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

Part One: Growing Up in Britain 1925 – 1945

Posted on September 26, 2014 by petegrafton

Part One: Growing Up in Britain 1925 – 1945 “Is there any advantage to be derived from having a feeling of belonging or attachment to one particular place? Personally during my 19 years I have lived in many … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, Gender Studies, Letters, Social and Political History, Womens History | Tagged 1938 Holidays with Pay Act, Anglo-Polish Ballet, Battle of the Bulge, Carbeth, Castle Archdale, Clydebank, Dornoch, Fords Cork, Glasgow Alhambra, Glencoe, Irvinestown, John Brown's Clydebank, Lucia de Brouckere, Marine Hotel Hunters Quay, South East Essex Technical College, ss Queen Elizabeth, ss Queen Mary, Taits Smile, The Franconia | 1 Comment