Front cover of Volume 44, October 1922 - September 1923.
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Norwegian Sportswear
Mum knitted the kid's version for me when I was about 8; I knitted the adult version for myself several years later.
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Monday, 14 June 2010
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Father and Son Pullovers
Knitting pattern leaflet published by Patons & Baldwins, early Fifties. Have you spotted the well-known actor?
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knitting
Saturday, 12 June 2010
Private Arthur John Peckett
Private Arthur John Peckett, Royal Leicestershire Regiment, born 11 December 1889 in March, Cambridgeshire, died 1916 in France.In common with thousands of other British soldiers of the Great War, the date of death and last resting place of my grandfather are unknown.
Labels:
children,
family,
men in uniform,
military,
photographs,
World War I
Dad's wartime diary 1
I treasure my dad's wartime journal, written between 1943 and 1945 in various RAF camps throughout France, Italy and Egypt. He used a small loose-leaf notebook, presumably the Forties equivalent of a slim Filofax and posted it home in chunks to my mum in Yorkshire.
Labels:
diaries,
family,
men in uniform,
military,
photographs,
RAF,
World War II
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