Modelling is not just for boys, my husband has given himself the task of making a model of every plane that flew during World War 1. Not a huge task you might say. You would be wrong. Internationally he has found about 500 different planes and has made about 350. The trouble is when he hunts for the plans he finds more planes! You can view his model aircraft project here > Bromley School Boys’ Clever Work Two boys of the Bromley County School, in their spare time, have made…
Month: July 2021
Windmills
Windmills The repercussions of war are as unexpected as they are inexorable and endless. The latest of victims are our few ancient windmills. Of recent years about half-dozen of these time-honoured memorials of agricultural England were put back into working order again. One would have thought that such engines worked by wind alone and needing no fuel to drive them would have been of economical value to the war machine. Apparently, this is not so. The Ministry of Food say that owing to transport local milling is not practicable. Everything…
Wedding of Mason & Lovely
Mr T.G. Mason and Miss Valerie Lovely Mr Thomas George Mason, only son of Mr and Mrs J.T. Mason, of 321 Warminster Road, Sheffiled, was married on Saturday at Shortlands Parish Church to Miss Valerie Lovely, second daughter of Mr and Mrs P.T. Lovely, of Kingsleigh, Westmoreland Road, BRomley. The ceremony was performed by the Vicar, the Rev. J.F. Thornhill, M.A., Lieutenant Anthony Joyce was the best man. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of ivory satin brocade with coronet of orange blossom. She…
Sea Birds’ Peril
The many sinkings of tankers and oil-fuelled vessels has greatly increased the peril to guillemots, puffins, razorbills, comorants and gulls of all kinds, as well as many estuary ducks. They can do nothing but drift on tides, back and forth, until they die after weeks of slow starvation. Sometimes heavy weather casts these oil-smothered sufferers ashore. People living round our coats are constantly telling of hundreds of dead and dying birds washed ashore. The secretary of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says that, compared with the last…
Shavex: Advert from 1942
“Shavex” was the was first brush-less shaving cream, developed by Violet Van der Elst, a daughter of a coal prter and a washwoman, and herself a scullery maid. Violet became a successful businesswomen after developing a number of cosmetics, including “Shavex” and was also a campigner, best remembered for her activities against the death penalty. Shavex: No Soap – No Brush – No Lather Why do all the forces prefer Shavex? The Pefect Two Minute Shave. They’re united, these men of the Empire, united in their determination to fight for…