Past memories

[eirwen]

Can anyone remember the wide top milk bottles which used to have cardboard inserts. These when removed had the middles taken out and were then laced together to make a shopping basket. Also getting an empty treacle tin putting two holes in the sides , putting wire through to make a handle then using a nail to put the 1st letter of your christian name in the end. Putting a candle inside and then you had your own lantern, with your initial showing through the end. Near the tennis courts in Darren park leaves when chewed had a taste like vineger. Long time ago about 1943-45. Eirwen.

[RogerWood]

1943 gosh, Not born then. But I do remember making lanterns from Dried Milk tins as you said. Alsp the same tins were used in the Tudor Hall as lamp shades when I watched "Rob Roy". About 1954.