Hand made Ornaments & Clasps 1920's & 1930's

Use up scraps of silk 

Very pretty ornaments for dresses, hats, clasps, belts etc., can be made out of odd pieces of silk or cloth scraps of wool and embroidery silk button moulds and beads.

Making the large Discs

Cut a large circle of stiff  cardboard then cut a slightly larger circle of silk to cover the disc. Draw the thread firmly to keep it in place  using long stitches from side to side at the back.

Then paint a button mould (use various sizes the domed ones work best) in metallic enamel in colours such as Gold Silver or Copper. Then with thin wool, angora or silk thread attach the moulds to the covered disc by passing the needle through the centre hole from the back and then working symmetrical stitches to the edges in the form of a star or sun rays. When the moulds are firmly attached the spaces in between can be filled up with fancy stitches, beads, jewels, or anything else such as gold thread, rock coral, shell, jet etc.

1940's Weekend Lytham Green - Shop window displays

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A selection of shop windows displays in the town promoting the 1940's weekend, Cafes in the town were selling 1940's fare such as corned beef hash and mouth watering  home made cakes.

1940's Lytham Festival - Homefront

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A group of enthusiastic people who bring the 1940's mundane tasks to life. 

They have women in their pinnys & curlers pushing prams, shop keeper, a glazier repairing bomb damage, A Doctor & his nurse, working men & women in overalls, a policeman, land girls, Army, Home Gruard etc

http://www.ukhomefront.co.uk/

Lytham 1940's Weekend - The fashions

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This lady is Liz Danielewicz a watercolour artist specialising in pets people and views. Her work is for sale at the  Lytham Heritage Centre.

http://lizdanielewicz.weebly.com/

1940's Wartime Festival on Lytham Green

A weekend of Wartime entertainment! 17th & 18th August 2013.
Wartime Memorabilia Fair, historic Vehicles, Music & Dance, Thrilling Battles, Talks & Demonstrations, Living History Camp, Mock Battle Scene, Vehicle Procession and more.

Part 1
The Vehicles:-

Clitheroe Food festival Whinberry Pie

I purchased a home made Whinberry pie from Clitheroe food festival which was held last weekend, it was delicious i havent had a proper whinberry pie for years, i  remember many summers ago picking wild whinberry just delicious.

The pie was made by The owners of Park Farm Shop, Tearooms, Garden & gift Centre.

"The Famous Whinberry Pie

...and a trip down Memory Lane to the days when tea was sold 'loose' from a van; warm, freshly baked, loaves of bread were delivered (unsliced of course) by bike - Workers' Playtime and Sing Something Simple were on the Light Programme...and mother used to bake her famous Whinberry Pie... and there never seemed to be any left!

At Park Farm, the memory lingers on in the form of our own genuine Whinberry Pie served with lashings of cream. Remember those tiny whinberries and the hours that it seemed to take to fill only a cup? Well, we do all that and then, with our own traditional recipe, create a Whinberry Pie - 'just like mother used to make.'

So, those purple fingers are ours...and that purple tongue is yours! Whinberry Pie re-lives memories for some and is a uniquely mouth watering experience for others. Try it now at Park Farm - we know you'll come back for more!"

http://www.parkfarmshopramsbottom.co.uk/

Frearson & Ranova

A month ago or so i sold a signed vintage postcard of a musical Hall act called Frearson & Ranova, interestingly The buyer also had the name Frearson so being the noisy person that i am i asked if the person on the postcard was known to him.
It turned out that the buyer was in fact researching the surname Frearson (one name study) and didnt actually know any details about the Frearson from the postcard.

The surname Frearson is of early medieval English origin and probably derives from the word friar and would probably have been a nickname for someone who was pious and not necessarily a friar or monk.

Early Frearson's include  Henry Frierson - marriage, 2 July 1571, London; and Agnes Frearson - marriage, 4 August 1577, Hawkshead, Lancashire.

Frearson of Note

John Frearson of Birmingham. An engineer and inventor  of the cross-head screw.

On the 1841 UK census there are only 4 people recorded with the surname and by 1911, 688

My buyer has been researching the surname Frearson and its variants for that past 10 years and has managed to assemble 100 family trees from here in the UK, and other parts of the world including USA & Australia.

Below a selection of Music hall items 

Hebden Bridge Vintage Cars Weekend

The Vintage Weekend is now in its 31st year, with the first rally held in 1983. It is interesting to note that brand new cars on display in dealer’s showrooms that year are now eligible to attend the Saturday Rally.

SaturdayClassic Cars 1970 to 1979
Classic Cars 1980 to 1992
Motorcycles 1970 to 1992
Rolls Royce & Bentleys (of any age),
Replica or Kit cars (of any age)
Pre 1992 registered TractorsPre-1970 registered vehicles
military vehicles (of any age)Novelty Vehicle (pedal car/ classic bicycle, soapbox racing car, etc)

  Sunday

Veteran and Vintage Cars up to 1930
Post Vintage Cars 1931 to 1939
Post War Cars 1940 to 1959
Post War Cars 1960 to 1971
Motorcycles up to 1971
Commercial Vehicles up to 1971
American vehicles up to 1971
Military Vehicles of any age

As an added bonus, on Sunday morning, visitors to Hebden Bridge can watch the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society’s famous ‘Trans Pennine Run’ pass through the town. Hebden Bridge is an ideal location to watch this magnificent collection of historic vehicles as they wind their way across the Pennines, en route from Manchester to Harrogate.