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Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Communications
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 09:10:07 EDT

Re Patricia's enquiry regarding the BBC wireless adddresses. It was not until
after the Dunkirk episode that I , personally, and perhaps most of the
British people, paid the most strictest attention to all communications to
the public. in 1940, I had been given a wireless for my eighteenth birthday
after much begging to my family, so that I could
keep up with the music, the programmes, and the "news". It was a battery
operated one, a liquid battery in a glass container with a handle, that had
to be recharged very frequently at a local shop. We did not have electricity
in our homes, we had gas and no telephone lines to private homes.
We remember all the Churchill addresses to the British people, listened to so
attentively, as we crouched and bent over the speaker to catch every word.
THE"WE SHALL FIGHT,ON THE BEACHES.,etc...." speech will never be forgotten as
we lived on the coast and our local men were at that time patrolling our sea
walls with make-do weapons like sticks and brooms,which is all that they
had.This was at the beginning of the war,by the end of it the whole world-and
communications-had changed.
At the end of the war, my new husband had returned to the U.S. and in a New
York store or studio,he recorded on to a vinyl,or plastic, disc his latest
personal news to me.I had to go to a gramophone store in our small and old
fashioned English town to have it played for me!!!!!!! All other
communication and correspondence was by U.S. censored mail. Airmail sheeets
that were photocopied . Cheers and Best wishes to all. Jean

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