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Remembering Wartime Christmas
| Published: 25th November 2008 10:17 |
Remembering the Wartime Christmas
Saturday 6th December 2008
Deanshanger Village
Start December off with an early dose of Christmas spirit when Deanshanger Village remember how despite the wartime restrictions, Britons were determined to celebrate Christmas.
Amanda Pickard, formally of the Imperial War Museum and now the house manager at Olney’s Cowper & Newton Museum will present an interactive talk on the home front wartime Christmas. Not only will she be bring many original WW2 artefacts but she will also be dressed in orginal 1940s clothing.
“I am so looking forward to visiting Deanshanger” said Amanda Pickard, “plus having the evening in the Church Hall is wonderful as the church is lovely setting for a nostalgic journey to the austere days of the 1940s”.
Afterwards tea ~ coffee and the chance to taste special wartime Christmas food treats will be served. Because although the winter frost may well of threatened the “Dig for Victory” garden food still remained an important part of the1940’s Christmas.
The evening is aimed at all age groups and includes a ‘make do and mend’ Christmas decoration making session for younger visitors.
The evening starts at 6pm and is free & presented to you as an early Christmas gift from Deanshanger’s Holy Trinity Church.
The wartime Christmas is being held in the church hall at Holy Trinity Church, Deanshanger MK19 6JT. Free car parking is available in the church car park.
For further information and /or interview contact Amanda Pickard on 07878 160638
Amanda Pickard is part of Harry & Edna’s Home Front Friends
http://wwwhomefrontfriends.org.uk
Holy Tinity Church can be contacted on 01908 567562.
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