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- Joyce McLoughlin
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- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A5952972
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- 29 September 2005
In 1942 I was 14 years old and working in a woollen mill. My father was in the army and I wondered when I would see him again. To encourage me, my maternal grandmother taught me to crochet, with a whale-bone hook which I have to this day. The yarn I scrounged from work from faulty samples that were going to be thrown away.
I wanted to be 'fashionable' and my friends were wearing the popular 'snood' - even Vera Lynn was wearing one; so my granma showed me how to make one.
Since then I've discovered 1940's weekends and I found that snoods were very much in demand, so starting with a few, their popularity has grown so much that people call me 'The Snood Lady'.
For more information on snood's, contact 'The Snood Lady' at:
thesnoodlady@aol.com
This story has been submitted to the People's War site by Becky Barugh of the 大象传媒 Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Joyce McLoughlin and has been added with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
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