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Carnivals after WWII 1940s

Peace Celebrations were held in 1946, with harbour sports.

Carnival sports, 1946 programme

Carnival sports, 1946 programme

1948 seems to have been the first full carnival after the end of WWII and demob.

Yarmouth Common Carnival time

Yarmouth Common Carnival time. Fancy Hat Competition led by Ted Lawry

Billy Doe crowns Carnival Queen
Billy Doe crowns Carnival Queen : photo Sue Russell

Raich Doe front left, Bob Cook, and contributors Serena Hunt, Susan Hayles in Brownie uniform, Effie Pitman behind Sue, Derek Pomroy with cub Peter Stallard

In 1949 a Carnival Queen was chosen by votes at the ‘Con Club’ from a bevy of local beauties .

Carnival line-up 1949, at 'Con Club' to choose Carnival Queen

Carnival line-up 1949, at ‘Con Club’ to choose Carnival Queen : photo Pat Burt

From left: Jean Levey, Ella Jackman, Pam Henderson (chosen to be Queen), Mrs Eames, Barbara Holloway, Annette Holloway, Pat Adams, (chosen as attendant) Jessie Attrill, with Newt Kelsey judging or looking on.

Pam Henderson is crowned carnival Queen in 1949, at first carnival after WWII

Pam Henderson is crowned carnival Queen in 1949, at first full  carnival after WWII

At the crowning ceremony are: from left, Robert May, Heather Harris (married Raich Doe), Pat Adams (married Mick Burt), Pam Henderson, Carnival Queen, Miss New Zealand, and Mr J. Flanders who officiated.

The boy peeping between is John Orchard, staying with his Uncle who had a taxi.

Miss New Zealand was persuaded by Mrs Hans Hamilton to put in an appearance, and seemed to enjoy the parade.

Yarmouth Carnival 1948 Miss New Zealand

Yarmouth Carnival 1949 Miss New Zealand joins the parade

 

Pat Burt, Annette Haynes: WWII food 1940s

We had our groceries delivered from Higginbothams  2 doors away. I used to write the order in the book every week  – sugar, butter, marg, lard, tea, bacon, cheese because  they were the things that were rationed. We were only allowed so much of those.  That was my job to write the order. Pat Burt nee Adams b1929

We didn’t do too badly on it though. We were all right because we had the Naafi manager with us during the war. The Naafi was in the Kings Head. Annette Haynes nee Holloway b1929

Pat Burt, Annette Haynes: WWII air raid sirens

Kevack across to North House

Kevack across to North House

I remember hearing war had broken out on the radio. We lived in the stone cottage ‘Kevack’ in the High Street. During the early part of the war when the air raid sirens went, we used to rush over and down into the cellars of North House, but that was only for a short while until we had the Morrison table shelter delivered  –  I think we had that by 1942.    Pat Burt

I was away in Castle Bromwich, near Birmingham, when war broke out. I was staying with a friend of my mother’s, I called her my aunt – she wanted to adopt me.  I was so worried because my mother couldn’t get me a gas mask because I wasn’t at home, and my ‘aunt’ couldn’t get a gas mask for me.  I had to come back home of course.
We had an Anderson shelter in the garden.  I remember my brother saying, ‘If I’m going to be killed, I’ll be killed in my bed. I’m not going down to the shelter.’
Annette Haynes

Annette Haynes: Free Time, Concerts and pantomimes, 1940s,1950s

Annette Holloway as Demon Glum in Pantomime at Con Club

Annette Holloway as Demon Glum in Pantomime at Con Club

Our pantomimes were always very well supported. So many people were in them and others came to watch. We used to go to Mrs Hans Hamilton’s house sometimes rehearsing for the pantomimes.  I always remember this fire in the middle of the room.
Annette Haynes nee Holloway

Shops: The Square, Mr. Burts, 1950s

Sometimes we used to collect our milk in jugs from Mr Burt who had a shop where ‘On The Rocks’ is. He ladled it out from the churn of milk. And he also did home deliveries in a cart. He sold home-made ice cream, a real treat.
Sue Russell nee Hayles b 1940

The Square, Burt's ice cream parlour and green grocers

The Square, Burt’s ice cream parlour and green grocers : Photo Pat Burt

In the summer you got your ice creams from Mr Burt on the corner, Pat’s father in law. They were lovely ice creams , strawberry, vanilla or chocolate, made in the back of the
shop.

His shop was called Shalfleet Manor Dairy because he collected the milk from Shalfleet Farm every morning and delivered it round Yarmouth from the churns into people’s jugs.    That must have been in the 30’s, up to the war, because then he was in the Navy, he was called up.
The bit at the back was the ice cream parlour in the summer, a greengrocer’s in the front. He used to grow a lot of vegetables. He had a piece of ground on the lane leading up to the recreation ground, on the left hand side, where there’s a bungalow now.  He grew vegetables, kept a few pigs and he bought a lot of veg. from Mrs Crozier’s estate at Westhill.  He used to go over there and buy it off the gardener because there was just the one big house there to supply, with gardens where there‘s bungalows now. Burt’s carried on into the 1950s when Mrs Burt was running it.
Pat Burt nee Adams and Annette Haynes nee Holloway b 1929

Mum used to bribe us by offering us an ice cream from Burts when she wanted us to leave the beach without making a fuss. M.S.

Jack Burt used to come round with the milk in churns. Ash from that damn pipe was always falling in it. Nick Chandler b 1937


Shops: Kelseys Confectioners 1930s

Advertisement for  Kelseys Confectioners in the Square, 1920s, 1930s

Advertisement for Kelseys Confectioners in the Square, 1920s, 1930s

Laurie Kelsey was in charge. Laurie, we didn’t know her by that. We used to call her Aunt Annie.  She was nice, she was deaf, wasn’t she.  She used to have long tray of sweets uncovered, with a glass top on and she always had a chair in the corner for us little’uns to get up on to so we could have a good look to see what sweets she’d got.  She sold toys and all.  Next to that was Saxbury’s souvenirs, postcards, mostly things about the Island, Yarmouth and all that.  Phil Kelsey b 1920

 

We used to run into Kelsey’s, stand on the chair they had and choose our sweets from the big glass jars.   We couldn’t see over the counter.  Pat Burt nee Adams b 1929 and Annette Haynes nee Holloway b 1929
b 1929

Annette Haynes: Free Time 1930s and 1940s

Yarmouth Station and marsh

Yarmouth Station, Mill Stream and marsh from platform 2013

When we were kids and the marsh froze over, we used to go skating on it and if any of us fell in and got wet, we would go into the station. They always had a big fire going in the waiting room, so we used to be able to dry off.   The stationmaster was Peter, and didn’t mind us drying off.  I can see his face.
Annette Haynes nee Holloway b 1929

Annette Haynes: Early Days 1930s

 

Alma Place 2013

Alma Place 2013

Pat and I both started off in Alma Place . We’ve known each other since we were three.  My parents brought me to the Island because my brother and I were both so poorly the doctor said we had to live by the sea. For a year or so my dad used to cycle to Havenstreet to visit my brother in the hospital, but then my mother said, ‘If he’s going to die, bring him home’. He’s still going strong, nearly 90.

From Alma Place we moved to Coastguard Cottages. I remember we had an outside pump for water there.  We moved once from Coastguard Cottages to a bigger house in South Street. We moved in one day and moved out the next because my mother saw mice and she wouldn’t stay there, so we moved back to our old house. Annette Haynes nee Holloway b 1929

Coastguard cottages 2013

Coastguard cottages 2013

Annette Haynes: School days

Miss Chambers, the infant teacher said to Tamar one day , ‘Come here!’

She didn’t come out so Miss Chambers went to get her from the back of the classroom. I always remember Tamar got out of her seat and ran and the teacher was chasing her round the classroom. I remember Tamar running round the playground, and running around the school.
Annette Haynes nee Holloway