This series made me grateful for many things in my life that I usually don't pay much attention to..War is ugly
@RosiesCottageBlog
8 жыл бұрын
The Morrison shelter was the large table like structure the people were shown sitting at when the voiceover mentioned the Morrison shelter. It was reinforced so as to protect you if the roof came down. People would take shelter under it during an air raid. Hope that helps.
@ccaro4003
7 жыл бұрын
Rosies Cottage thanks. I was wondering what he was talking about. I could guess but the explanation helps.
@petertaylor3600
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for that. I'd only ever heard of Anderson shelters.
@zzydny
4 жыл бұрын
The book Nella Last's War describes using this table type of shelter in her home during the bombing of Barrow-on-Furness.
@jimconnelly1706
7 ай бұрын
Omg so good
@caspence56
7 жыл бұрын
The fireplaces shown in the living room and dining room are gorgeous. I'd love to have them in my home today.
@life_seeker6102
4 жыл бұрын
Tom Sanders mine was removed in 1985 by the old woman who used to live in my home.
@naguerea
7 ай бұрын
Bless you.
@karen4you
3 ай бұрын
Great educational series. Thank you. I wish I could have an indoor Morrison shelter now because we have over 89 tornadoes every spring and it'd be a good shelter when your house fell in
@davidpar2
7 жыл бұрын
The tape on the windows was done so uniformly, I thought it was intentional design until told otherwise
@petertaylor3600
6 жыл бұрын
We had rationing also, in Australia, but it wasn't as miserable as the British version. It makes you determined to make sure there never is another war like that one. And our rationing ended in the late 40s instead of extending into the 50s.
@roblloyd1879
Жыл бұрын
My mother was drafted to Swindon during the war as a clippie on the buses and billeted with a married couple. During air raids (Swindon was heavily bombed) she and the husband would stay in the Morrison shelter playing cards while the wife was so terrified she sat on the toilet with a bowl to be sick in.
@davidpar2
Жыл бұрын
Swindon, that’s where Diana Dors was from
@Zooumberg
7 жыл бұрын
Dining room, how very middle class. I was born in 1969 and I remember having an outside toilet.
@TheTrooper115
6 жыл бұрын
And I was born in '98 and remember having an outside toilet, what of it?
@juliemcleod9869
4 жыл бұрын
I thought it was a middle class house my self. The house looks like a 1930's semi.
@Amy-zh1rd
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheTrooper115 same here , used to have to pour kettle water down it in winter.
@annsavinski4500
6 жыл бұрын
got to have that pot of tea! We Americans laugh, because it seems like even if the bomb was headed straight for your house, you had to grab the tea before it exploded. But, on a more serious note, I have studied the war from many fronts and all angles, both European Theater and Pacific Theater, and know that no one had it easy. Hats off to the British people!
@jimconnelly1706
7 ай бұрын
Nice love the facts ☺️
@bwghall1
3 жыл бұрын
AH yes, I remember it well. no hot water. a bath once a week.3 mile walk to school.
@naguerea
7 ай бұрын
And realising it was important to wash you bum.
@ELVENGADOR858
Жыл бұрын
MAGNIFICO
@anyaharris5617
4 ай бұрын
Fascinating
@life_seeker6102
4 жыл бұрын
Hi everyone I have a question about rationing I heard that rationing was introduced do that “everyone, rich and poor, can get their fair share” of food. Was food free in rationing or did you still have to pay. I am aware ration books had stamps were used as some sort of currency. Is this true?
@ikkelimburg3552
4 жыл бұрын
No. The stamps only showed how much you could buy. You couldn’t just pay more to get more (only on the black market if you could afford it). You had to register with a butchershop, bakery, etc. They could only get as much supply as the number of ‘stamps’ from customers they collected each week. The rationing meant that everyone was able to buy the essentials instead of rich people buying up all the essentials. You could trade some of the stamps for other stamps. My grandmother didn’t smoke so she traded them for other stamps with her smoking neighbour.
@life_seeker6102
4 жыл бұрын
Ikke limburg thank you for the information
@rossmckenzie2433
3 жыл бұрын
There were no dining-rooms in a working-class '2up, 2 down', I can assure you! Meals were eaten either in the kitchen or living-room! Your videos depict the average middle-class home, not the average working-class home.
@lilyandrose8557
2 жыл бұрын
was there something wrong?
@macraghnaill3553
4 ай бұрын
I was brought up in an Edwardian terraced house, 3 beds, bathroom, living room, dining room. breakfast room and kitchen and what you would call a working class family, it would just depend on the area one lived in, very few of the 2 up 2 down houses in the town I lived in. The house in the video looks like a 1930s semi which did have a living room, dining room and kitchen 3 beds, and bathroom
@liamkatt6434
Жыл бұрын
The Anderson did not 'save lives' purely by its design. In fact, you were safer in your house than an Anderson shelter if a bomb landed close by. Brick walls are far more able to stop shrapnel than iron sheets and soil. The Andersons that worked well, were the ones built in fields etc. The Morrison shelter was far more useful and worked well inside a home, but as stated, came too late to be used in the main Blitz. The Anderson's had a low profile and were useful in some blast events. They gave a feeling of security just like the gas mask. Towards the end of the air raids, many British people chose to stay in their own homes as they got used to the sounds of bombs and AA guns.
@liberte1334
3 жыл бұрын
I would love to know where to get the wallpaper border!
@chocolate-eq6jn
3 жыл бұрын
Does anybody know where you can get splinter net tape today? We live in the USA.
@kennethslade8468
8 жыл бұрын
The narrator is in error when he says the Morrison undoubtedly saved lives from v1 and v2s. There was no warning of v2 attacks, so nobody was able to take cover before they exploded.
@Zooumberg
7 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. They even covered it up as gas explosions.
@macraghnaill3553
7 жыл бұрын
They could be heard coming, it was when the engine stopped no one knew where they would land
@sanders2378
7 жыл бұрын
Dave H I think that only applied to V1s. V2s were silent.
@653j521
5 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't they hear the explosions in the area and take cover?
@chrislee1096
4 ай бұрын
Was this filmed in US?
@contact3604
3 жыл бұрын
♥🌹 Moira From England.
@macraghnaill3553
4 ай бұрын
The rest of the floorboards could do with staining around the carpet
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