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just read a funny bit
my dad has got a new gun dog a black labrador
and he talks about shooting a crow to curry (yuk)
he tells how the new dog swims
out to retrieve the said crow
and he decides to call the dog Monty after the
secret service guy he had to guard
who has now gone back to India
and was a pain in the ****
and the CO is after it so if she wants
he will bring it home
and it can live with the spaniel
he uses as his gun dog when he is at home

what a wonderful thread ! How lucky you are to have this touch of past
Margaret

how fab Joy,

Karen x

THANK YOU GIRLS

FOR YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT XX

So pleased you are enjoying those letters.I bet they have brought a few tears to your eyes.You have been brave to do it.Keep the stories coming.

Bless, it was a different time then and a different way of putting things down. They would be horrified the way we talk and write these days!

lmao we were laughing at his p.s coz they could have been construde as rude

lmao

infact haha we read them first after a few letters coz we new they would make us laugh lol

he sounds just like Eldrick

Oh bless him, he sounds a wonderful man - how proud of him you must feel.

I hope your Mam is enjoying all this too and is now wondering why she waiting so long?

Tina xxxxx

he was guarding some Germans
and he fainted
because of something he caught abroard
and instead of escaping
the Germans brought him back to his base
they carried him bless them

but the guarding the secret servis guy
really shocked me
how my dad could not wait for this person
to return to India
who ever he was he was a vip

a right scrapper he was
every letter he is bashing somebody
though he was a boxer
so thay could account for some of them

and evey letter he talks of his gun with pride
shooting pheasants ducks and partridge
he continued this all his life along with his fishing
i bet our family never went short of food ever

aw tina it was lovely
he pretended he was ill so he could go home on leave haha
and the worry over the wedding and who would go and that he didnt care as long as they were there

so romantic

and him sending her money and hoping she isnt offended by it haha

aw cant wait to read some more xxxxx

Stray - I am sitting on the edge of my chair lapping up all this history of yours its brill! Turning greener with every new piece lol

Tina xx

omg WOW!!!
what a find im wore out my poor eyes lol

well were do i start
the writing is faded and joined up making them hard on the eyes

butt the content was brill
hes a fine strapping man haha and adored my nana
few scary moments were he likes her blue "ahems lol we think he ment pinies haha

he tells stories of going shooting for duck "coz he knows its nana favourite and pheasant
catching two and giving one to the lads for dinner
and bringing the other one home for nana altho the lads were trying to get him to raffle the second one and make some money but he rufused as he wanted nana to cook it for sunday lunch "how romantic

he tells of them putting a man in charge of him that pushes his look and in his words "i gave him a black eye and put him down twice
he was moved on the next day but grandad never got in trouble as the other bloke sarted it lol

he talks of taking his rifle the pub with him "like ya would lol and looking after someone in the secret service and his diswant of being moved to india

to him telling nana, he could tel he had annoyed her so next time he was home he would allow HER to be BOSS that made me chuckle

gawd i could type for ever tellign you all of his exploits but having only read 20 odd letters got many more to go lol

and i cant wait to read more
and looking at mams cards when she was younger was a joy """haha litrelly a joy xxx

the letter we read were in no order but were from 1945/1946 from them courting to after they were married to my uncle being born and my grandad wanting to call him gordan "but they never lol

anyways if you have got this far thanks for reading xxx

FOUND A LETTER FROM MY GRANMA

SHE WAS BORN 1887


AND ONE FROM E ANNIE WILDE

FROM BRADFORD

What a gift Joy to have your Mum's wedding dress and her letters. How lovely for you and your daughter - wish I had some of my Mum's things. You will do the right thing and have lots of lovely memories. Good luck x

THEY ARE SO HARD TO READ

THE WRITINGS FADING

MY EYES ARE WELL OPEN NOW

READ 8 UP TO NOW

Oh Joy, I am so envious of you and Stray.
And Don't judge them whatever you may find... they were loving normal human beings, full of emotion. Just like us.
Enjoy yourself love.
Deanna X

Oh Joy, this box is huge, I thought it was going to be a very small box or package with just letters but its getting better minute by minute. To have your Mum's wedding dress and veil - *sob* is wonderful. The only thing I have of my mothers is her eternity ring, and a gold plated locket. She was buried with her wedding ring on -so I have been told. (I lost my Mum when I was 5). Mum did not get married in white either, it was a registry office and everyone had their best coats on by the looks of it -its in black and white.

Liz I so feel for you too to have your brothers chuck things away like that tsk!.

I do so hope you are now enjoying looking at the contents of the wonderful gift that has been left you.

Teen xxx

Oh how lucky you are, I have nothing like that. My Mum always said she kept her engagement ring from her first fiance who died and was keeping it for me, but they got really hard up and she sold it.
My parents met in October 1945 when Dad was on demob in Norfolk and Mum was a Land girl, and they married a few days after Christmas 1945. There was hardly time for it to be a shotgun wedding but Mum borrowed her sister's wedding dress so it went back after and no souveniers except a few pieces of card cut from political cards (my aunt was strong Labour supporter) with names of who sent gifts, so I expect the pressies were opened and laid out with these labels on, there was one gift tag written out from one person themselves. I still have one plate from Mum's wedding gift dinner service and some wooden eggcups on a stand and a wooden fruit bowl, both handmade as gifts for them.
I suppose a lot of stuff got slung out as they moved to my Dad's home county of Buckinghamshire after the wedding but didn't stay long as Mum and Gran didn't get on. There was a baby boy who was stillborn while they were there, and my Gran was so unsympathetic to Mum she wouldn't stay, so we ended up back in Mum's home city of Norwich and didn't see much of the Bucks rellies. I was born in Norwich in 1947.
There wasn't really any time for Mum and Dad to write to each other as they were close by at Trunch (the demob place) and Cromer where Mum had lodgings. They met when Mum was riding her bike back from work to Cromer and Dad whistled at her lol
Brazen hussy must have stopped to speak to him, wonder how long it took her to stop lol

Hope you enjoy reading of the love between your parents Joy. I only have a few cards they sent one another, my brothers threw a lot of stuff in the skip when Mum died, before I could get to look.

Lizxx

my storks there to bit worse for wear

and my mums wedding dress and veil

and the decoration off her wedding cake