1950's Childhood.

'Conny Onny' butties. Condensed Milk on bread and after Christmas there would be a couple of jars of Goose grease in the larder, not for roast potatoes Oh no! my mother would rub it on our chest and back to keep cold out. Must have smelt awful but I still had friends at school, so maybe we all had it on.

Do you remember rainbow sherbert don't know about you but my finger was the colour of a rainbow by time I got to school..lol And remember wood sticks tasted like liquorice
And fruit salad sweets blk jacks.

I moved about a lot as a child, can't count the number of times we moved when I was between the ages of 5 and 8.

I think mum must have been feeling guilty because she bought me a pink sugar elephant. I ate it all and can still see it in my mind's eye. It was at least four times bigger than a sugar mouse.

Adventures of a Teddy Bear and More Adventures of a Teddy Bear by Mrs H C Cradock
(just seen on Amazon in much worse condition than mine for £14.95, but mine is going nowhere!)

Mary Mouse stories by Enid Blyton.
Small books in comic format, with two lines under each picture (like Rupert Bear)
I learned to read with Mary Mouse, and Sunny Stories too.

Ah yes, the pink sugar mouse with a string tail. No wonder I have so many fillings!

The New Book of Knowledge by Waverley in 8 volumes.
They are sitting on the shelf just behind me!

I must have a look on ebay and go through all these old books - would I have enough for a holiday if I sold them?
Muffin is staying, though.

PS we weren't allowed comics or magazines any other time of year!

I remember Sunny Stories. Santa Claus used to bring one every Christmas. He put it in my stocking along with a clockwork toy, an orange, puzzle or colouring book, scarf or pair of socks, tube of chocolate dragees and a sugar mouse. It wasn't Christmas without the sugar mouse. They were traditional stocking fillers, same every year. My sisters and I loved comparing what we got!

I remember Sunny Stories and saw it as my own special 'magazine'. In fact I loved everything I could get hold of by Enid Blyton.

Does anyone remember Sunny Stories? It was in quite a small format and if I remember correctly the cover was pink and blue? I think it was Enid blyton. I also used to get deliverd Playbox tho my mother cancelled it when she thought I'd outgrown it. I hadn't
Way back someone mentioned as a child blowing on blades of grass. I still do it! Long live childhood!

Anyone remember a book called 'Rennie the Rescuer'? about another dog?

And our relatives who were 'Ten Pound Poms' in the late 50s left me one half of the Children's Encyclopaedia - six books and I never did see the other half. I loved them.

and seeing if you liked butter with a buttercup under your chin

Telling the time with a dandelion clock? Puff, one o'clock, puff, two o'clock etc.

When I was very little, under 7 because I know it was when we were living in London, our father came home one day with a big blue children's encyclopaedia for us. Oh how we all loved that book! All four of us would sit, poring over the wonderful illustrations and reading about all sorts of things for endless hours.
A few years ago it came up in conversation while talking to my brother on the phone - we both remembered it with such affection, but neither we nor our other siblings knew what had become of it. My brother searched online and found a copy on eBay, bought it, wrapped it up and sent it to me for Christmas! Odhams Encyclopaedia for Children - pure nostalgia! I so enjoyed looking through it after so many years.

oh today 65 years ago we would be dancing round the may pole in our pretty frocks all going wrong and getting a ticking off from Mrs Batersby, but giggling behind our hands as we looked up and it was all tangled

Just bought "Maid at the Abbey" for £8.00...it's that blue hardback cover with the silver bird in the bottom right hand corner, I'd forgotten that.

There were some incredibly expensive editions - I just treated myself to this one for sheer nostalgia.!

Ah! e bay! Off to see what I can find! Thanks, nightowl!

Anyone remember Jennifer and the flower fairies?

Oh yes Ariadne I'm sure I have it somewhere in a box in the loft! I loved it so much and still remember when Shadow leapt over a ditch (?) or something and scratched his eye on wire, so that he couldn't be sold to save the farm, hurrah! And his sight was saved after all and the farm was saved anyway!

My other favourite was Dancing Star (?) about Anna Pavlova. And a book about a pony called Dumpling which I have posted about before, and which I bought off eBay last year for a ridiculous price, for sentimental reasons

Yes, Marmight that was it! I kept muddling it up and thinking Green Door and knowing it wasn't right...but was there a song called that?

....and I recently confirmed my memory of our phone number which I had to memorise, 'Welwyn Garden City 3142', while searching Ancestry for my parents after the war! (We left in 1950).

Oh - "Shadow the Sheepdog" was an all time Blyton favourite. Anyone else read it?

Only just caught up here! Cari yes, you can sell books on Amazon, and also find out what the real going price is. I sold quite a lot when we moved - old academic books - OH's out of date Physics text books, for example. Worth a look!

I too loved all the other books posters have mentioned, especially Enid Blyton and Noel Streatfield. And - Lorna Hill(?) who wrote books about ballet.
But the Chalet School and Abbey books - there were the whole sets in our local library. (I was born in 1946) I was, and am, a very fast reader, so I'd try anything!

Oh thank you, thank you Marmight that would have been on my mind for ages. I have just googled and that is it.I have become brain colour blind in my old age!!

The Swish of the Curtain - The Blue Door Theatre Company by Pamela Brown?