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Hi Helen

Are they still in the envelopes - you might want to consider before burning them if any of the stamps are worth collecting. Who knows you may have a rare stamp stuck on one of them lol

Tina x

You need to ask??!! I'd have read them LONG ago!!

Ails x

Tina yes they are in their envelopes.Hadn't thought to look at the stamps.Thanks for that.
Helen.

JUST LOOKED ALL THE STAMPS

ARE SMALL PALE BLUE

WITH THE KING ON THEM

HERE GOES GIRLS

GOT THEM IN MY HAND

Oooh but what are you going to do ? Box them back up again - I think you are teasing us Joy lol

xxxx

NO JUST GOING TO MAKE A CUPPA

AND READ ONE OR TWO OR THREE

Well I truely hope you enjoy reading them and that there are no hidden skeletons or things you dont want to read.

I am just sooooo jealous.

Harpie/Tina xxxxxxx

SAMPLE

TO MY DARLING HUSBAND
ON OUR FIRST WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
WITH HOPES SPENDING MANY MORE TOGETHER FROM YOUR LOVING WIFE PEG

TO THE DEAR ONE I ADORE
LOVING EVERMORE AND MORE
HERES A LITTLE MESSAGE TRUE
JUST HEARTY I THANK YOU
FOR THE LOVE THAT YOU HAVE SHOWN
SINCE YOU MADE ME YOUR OWN
FOR THE WAY YOU'VE CHERISHED ME
WHILE WE LIVE HAPPILY TOGETHER


they married 27 jan 1945/6
so far so good

cards lots of old cards hundreds of them
two school certs for good attendance
1934 and 1935
scrapp book of news paper cutting
on the coronation of the queens father
old mags from the present queens corination
and clippings
army badges
a pearl neckless given on her 21st
smelling salts and thats just the start
might need the smelling salts
just found out summit shocking
in the old church mag

never mind ya letters what times tea lmaoooooooo

glad you had a peek will be round soon to share the family gossip lol xxx

stray when ya come round here

ive got summit to tell ya

Oh that is really really good news how very exciting Joy. Stray you lucky thing you.

How wonderful - I am excited for you and not just letters - I thought it was going to be all letters but you have a cornucopia in that box.

Teen xxx

Oh Lord Stray - hope its good news!

*bites nails*

ohh

proclamation from the king edward viii

hehe tina im gona have a peek
hope they havent got that old musty smell tho lol

"wink mam

I expect that they do have a musty smell about them old things usually do but what you will be looking at will far outweigh the smell.

Teen x

the icing off my christning cake

pongs a bit

and how blond was my hair i found a curl

I have the stork and baby off my christening cake.Some icing still stuck on the stork's feet!I also have a blonde curl.

my storks there to bit worse for wear

and my mums wedding dress and veil

and the decoration off her wedding cake

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