One night in 1940

We had a great evening at portishead rotary club, one night in 1940.

It was a fund raising event with 1940 tea and costumes where provided which gave the whole evening the atmosphere of 1940. We even had a air raid during the evening and we all made our way( very slowly) to the air raid shelter.

The air raid wardens made sure we where all safe. the land girls milked a cow and the home guard where showing just what they where capable  of as they marched up and down the hall.

A great evening with lots of laughs and some local people giving their stories from the war brought it all home to us and made us all stop and think.

3rd March 2010

3rd March 2010

Its has all been about research so far. I am concerned about food, looking at rationing clothing and just thinking about how we are going to do this. we want this to be taken seriously and want it to be as true as possible.

This weeks task is looking into where i can buy powdered egg!

Dave being the man in the house wants to do his bit for the war effort so he has been pitting together his home guard uniform and researching the local home guard in portishead.

We where very lucky to have a home guard book given to us from a family member , it has proved a very interesting  read.

This week Daves  badges for his uniform arrived. he got them from monty’s locker a great company and very helpful. 

http://www.montyslocker.co.uk

Holly is still keen but does not seem to grasp their where no teenagers in 1943 !

Why are we doing this ?

Life is so busy and we often give no thought to where our food comes from, how much it costs and how  we could eat healthy  food on a small budget . even harder to eat healthy food when you could not get it.

By living and researching this project  I am hoping  on a personal level to try and understand a learn how people lived and survived. 

As a family i hope it will bring all our interests  together to make a great event that  we all learn from.

About Us 

The blog is written by me lindsay smith mother to holly aged 14 and wife to david . we live in a 1950‘s style house in the village of portishead. My family are from portishead so I have strong links with the community  and any family war time memories are local ones.

I love to cook and garden, so I am looking forward to my victory garden and cooking food on rations.

My husband david  has a great interest in social history world war 2.

Our daughter holly is sort of looking forward to this project, the rationing of food is going to be tough on her , as is the clothes, war time  fashions do not go down to well to a 14 year old.

But holly is great at filming and editing  , so her job is to record this event with blogs and short videos.

I hope you enjoy reading our blog and follow us as we lean about living in war time Britain.