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Ray Barrett

Ray Barrett

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN R.I.P.
Having a mooch down my dad's house I came across these old,booklets and leaflets.Felt sure they would be of interest to some of the history buffs.
They prove to me that Neville Chamberlin,didn't waste his last year in office,he organised this plus evacuation and rationing.
To me Neville Chamberlin...was a great Brummy.
 
Blimey, it scares me reading them now. It must have been very worrying for the population.
 
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wonderful collection of booklets ray....as froth says it must have been so frighening....those of us who didnt live through the wars dont know the half of it....

cheers

lyn:)
 
Not a lot seems to have changed Ray other than the fact we no longer carry gas masks and the fact that the government actually gave you money back then and they got a pension and they were able to control their children and you were treated in hospital and the police would help you. Such a shame there were air raids, it all looked so idillic.
 
Astoness said:
wonderful collection of booklets ray....as froth says it must have been so frighening....those of us who didnt live through the wars dont know the half of it....

cheers

lyn:)
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If you want a taste Lyn watch the repeat of Blitz: The Bombing Of Coventry, it even opened my eyes an I lived through the Blitz in Brum.

I mentioned it when it was on a few weeks ago
 
I was nine years old when the war started, I dont remember folk being
worried about the bombs, my Dad had spent four years fighting in France in the Great War, and was wounded three times, in the leg, arm and chest.
He was one the first to join the LDV, which later became the Home Guard,
one of my older brothers upset him when he "Whats that stand for Dad, Look Duck and Vanish. We did have a air raid shelter in the back garden, but
it soon filled with water and was never used. The early 1940s were about
the worst, as I already said on this forum the Coventry raid was a bad one, and it looked as if the whole sky was on fire.
It is good in a way that people are able to tell what it was like on forums
like this, otherwise it would be forgotten, like so much of 20th c: history
cheers Bernard Quote; Tough Times dont last Tough People do. Gregory
Peck 1916/ 2003.
 
Ray Barrett said:
They prove to me that Neville Chamberlin,didn't waste his last year in office,he organised this plus evacuation and rationing.
To me Neville Chamberlin...was a great Brummy.
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I agree Ray and there is a school of thought that what Chamberlain did was to buy Britain time to get the war effort under way.
 
A nice piece of history Ray. Thanks for sharing your collection with us.:)
 
This reminds me of when I last did a car boot for forum funds, a man showed me a old ration book he had just bought for 50p, it was for a
address in Horninglow Burton on Trent, one I had delivered to many times.
this seems to be where old wartime stuff finishises up, at that sort of price.. I agree about Neville Chamberlain, but he was not cut out to be a wartime leader like Winston, the whole family did a great deal for Brum, but he must already have been a sick man because he didnt last long after. cheers Bernard
 
Many years ago, not long after we moved to Derby we went to a "40s
Night Dance with Anne Shelton and the Stapleford Big Band. Enid
said,"There are lots of old ARP uniforms in our basement at work, why dont you go as a Air Raid Warden.Everyone in uniform had to
go up on the stage. Anyway I won second prize which was a Radio
Derby tie and a big sloppy kiss off Anne!While we were sorting thru
ARP stuff we found a sleeve badge with I.C.D.S., anyone know what the letters stood for? Bernardlong service dinner634.jpg
 
Tinymac's post has reminded us of the existence of this thread. (Welcome to the Forum, tinymac).

Any chance, Ray Barrett, of reposting the images of your booklets which were lost during the hacking disaster some time ago, please? I'm sure that they will be of interest to many members and it is a great pity that they have disappeared.

Chris
 
In 1959 I was a young draughtsman at company in Witton and we had a civil defence manager and once a week we had to go to what we young ones thought were boring lectures about civil defence. One 'exercise' I remember was when we had to lower a young office boy who was strapped to a stretcher from the top floor of an office block. Half way down the stretcher got stuck and we had to get the maintenance people to bring long ladders to get it down.
 
In 1950's my mother worked for school meals, occasionally on a Saturday she would go to somewhere in Edgbaston on Civil Defence training, not sure if it was a voluntary thing or a part of her job. She would come back saying she had been cooking in a dustbin. We kids would wonder at the size of the dustbin as mom was not slim! It was much later that we realised she had been using the dustbin as a large saucepan.
 
We all thought CD was a joke but three years later in 1962 the Cuban Missile crisis occurred which was the one time during the Cold War when we thought 'this is it' and the chat in the office was 'what shall do in the days we have got left ' and where was the best place to shelter when the nuclear bombs were launched at us. Our company had by that time decided we did not need a civil defence manager and he had gone.
 
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devonjim said:
In 1950's my mother worked for school meals, occasionally on a Saturday she would go to somewhere in Edgbaston on Civil Defence training, not sure if it was a voluntary thing or a part of her job. She would come back saying she had been cooking in a dustbin. We kids would wonder at the size of the dustbin as mom was not slim! It was much later that we realised she had been using the dustbin as a large saucepan.
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I suppose this was where mom would have gone for that Saturday training.
 
In 1970's we had a small holding in Worcestershire as we were north east (prevailing winds and all that) and within a certain number of miles of the Severn estuary nuclear power stations we had to be on a list to be notified in the event of a reactor accident.
 
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