I have found this tale among my files and thought that it might interest one or two of you.
I dont want to bore folks with old tales so please tell me if I am and I promise I wont put any more up. I say this because I noticed that although folks are reading
the tales there are very few comments and I really would prefer you to tell me to take a long walk off a short pier if the stories are NOT suitable.
I wont be offended because I know that they are NOT to everyone's taste.
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Its been quite a while since I had a good clear out and there has been much reminiscing as I found stuff that I thought had been thrown out many moons ago,
including old photos which is why I have put this posting up as you will see.
Well before I had a computer I used to buy undressed baby dolls and knit sets to dress them in so that they could be used for a chosen charity of that time. It would usually be guess the name of the doll to raise money that way.
Anyway in 1982 I had a friend phone me up who used to look after the local war museum at the Loughborough Carillon below ......................
He had been donated a WW2 baby gasmask and wanted to know how it was put on a baby. I told him to come and see me and to bring it with him.
As luck would have it I had a doll ready for charity which I had dressed in clothes of that era and when he came I put the doll in the gasmask to demonstrate how the pump worked but it looked so good I told him to take the doll as I had placed it in the gasmask and go and put it in the WW2 section of the museum.
He was SO thrilled with it he had a name plate made with my name on it and had it put across the front of the helmet.
He took this photo of it as it sat in the museum.
