A blast from the past!

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Well as the year nears its end I was thinking back to Christmases past.

I just wondered if anyone still had their Rosehip Club collectors card? Or badge?

Back in the day I remember buying my parents’ Christmas presents with the proceeds of rosehip collection courtesy of Delrosa. Not sure what I bought them, as we only got 3d a pound for the harvest. The man from Delrosa took them all away to Wallsend and turned them into the delicious Rosehip Syrup. We have just worked out that I probably picked the hips used in Mrs J’s Delrosa for when she was teething:D And all because my Mam was in the WI.

Anyone else remember it?

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only thing I remember about rose hips were that they were very itchy things.

Mrs Rosso remembers rose hip-syrip, she’s older than me hehehe.

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Or remembered their time cleaning Lee Enfield 303 rifles with a pull through and an oily rag on a Tuesday evening as a member of Giggleswick School CCF.

Or playing the last post on their silver bugle outside the door of the school chapel on Remembrance Sunday.

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Being the mascot for the local WRVS in the sixties.
My knowledge of the No 2 field oven is ledgendary.
Now the cold war is over those thousands of middle aged women are unrecognised as a valuable part of our preparation for doomsday.

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I will be over my parent’s on Boxing Day were we will be discussing the latest findings from my research about their father’s activities in WW1. Care to come along and add your insights?

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Get the plans for the No 2 field oven declassified and we will tell all.:slight_smile:

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Blast from the past seems appropriate for cooking equipment designed to be heated with a variety of fuels including petrol. Apparently few still exist. Google reports that the army’s remaining stocks went down with the Atlantic Conveyor in 1982.

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Or the Windscale disaster that killed my favourite chemistry teacher 20 years later.:crying:

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Sorry to hear about your chemistry teacher. Was he working there in 57?

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Maybe not the mark 2, ours consisted of a trench, 4 courses of bricks, a hot plate 5ft by 2 ft ( god knows where you would find one post holocaust and a chimney installed in mud.
We used wood for fuel.

Cant believe the Atlantic conveyor sank with a full compliment of bricks and metal plates.

Dont think the WRVS were privy to the latest developments in field cooking, but we won through to the final in Sheffield of the WVRS quiz.:slight_smile:

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So he told us a few years before his death. And he drove a Triumph TR4.:cool:

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I thought I was getting old, but reading your comments I realise I am still young…yippee :w00t:

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I can remember hop picking in Kent - does that count

Ragged my fair share of 303 barrels in the ACF. It never lessened the kick and I’ve had my fair share of kick back bruises too. Imagine what the health & safety do gooders would make of handing a 12 year old a 303 with a full magazine clip today :w00t:

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Oh sh!t I am old, I fired a 303 in the CCF at 12…first class marksman at 100yds (no bruises as I held it as tight as a dog with a bone).
Interestingly the Sgt who marked us said “if you were in the second world war sonny you could of finished off quite a few of the bastards”

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I remember cleaning the old 303 Lee Enfields at Army Cadets. Amazing bit of kit, and an absolute nightmare if you used the wrong sized flanelette to pull it through! :pinch::stuck_out_tongue:

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I cleaned the L98A1 which replaced the 303 and bren. That is a blast from the past, one exercise I was actually given a full blown SA80. Never came back with any blanks that weekend.

That was at Rossall. So I think we played Giggleswick at rugby.

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And lost by all accounts, Rossall were renowned as the  pack who could only push when the back row had a couple of munks pushing there pudenda into the more than willing back row.