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Originally Posted by cathidaw
[GOOD IDEA. I WOULD LIKE TO INTEREST OLDER PEOPLE TOO, MAYBE TALK ABOUT THE OLD TIMES THERE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE to get verbal accounts.
There is a history group but not everyone knows about it.
I lived there for nearly 6 years during the war
Ihad great freedom and knew the town better than most of the indiginents- went to South street school and the Senior school .I know a lot about Atherstone in those years--I was an evacuee and lived with an illiterate butvery clever lady aged 63 ,in 1940--she was a real Victorian and was brought up the hard way there so I remember the Atherstone Victorian insular attitude to life there,
If interested please let me know -talk about schooldays in wartime -or the poverty and whether you felt deprived. Or anything.......just join in
As you may see I am interested in Social history
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When I first started the forum, we did have a local history and geneology forum. It's still there just currently inactive, perhaps now is a good time to being it back.
I'm at work at the moment, so I'll wait until I get home, but I've been looking for an excuse to reactivate it for a while.
Watch this space, as I say far too regularly.