January 1946 

Monday 14

Stayed in and made myself a ribbon out of an old blouse.

Tuesday 15

I went to the "Plaza" but could not get in. I went to my friends house and practiced dancing.

Wednesday 16

Went to the "Plaza" I got in this time  - "One Against Seven" was on & "Strange Affair"

Thursday 17

Stayed in.

Friday 18

Went to the "Plaza" to see "Dillinger" & "Army Wives"

Saturday 19

Went to Joyce Hulmes, very cold.

Sunday 20

Went to Calderstones to slide on the ice with Jean, Norma, Joyce & Joan

This diary was started only 5 months after VJ day, everyday things were still on ration and rationing would still be around for another 8 years yet. I wonder if the public knew it would be so long?  Making a ribbon out of an old blouse was the least a girl could do. 

The motto of the day was 'make do and mend'. 

Quite a busy old week on the pictures front 4 films this week- I read somewhere that although the war had just ended there was a raft of young people who had left school at 14 earning money and had some disposable income. I know my mum didn't get much money but she obviously did have disposable income which was spent, it seems, at the cinema  

"One Against Seven" was actually called "Counter-Attack aka One Against Seven" 

A 1945 film set in WW2 about a Russian soldier and a navigator trapped underground with a group of German  and set of mind games that mirror methods employed on the battlefield. 

sounds thrilling!!

"A Strange Affair" 1944 comedy 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Affair_(1944_film)

Dillinger is a 1945 gangster film that tells the story of John Dillinger

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillinger_(1945_film)

A 1944 American romantic comedy 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Wives_(1944_film)

Calderstones Park - love that park and have some great childhood memories ... including 'our Joyce' aka my Auntie Joyce nicking a Busy Lizzie cutting from one of the glass houses there, wrapping it in a tissue and saying 'shushhhh don't tell anyone!' 😊

I don't think the glass houses are there now?

The park is 94 acres and gets its name from 6 megaliths some 5,000 years old that are in the park

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 There is also a 1,000 year old oak tree known as the "Allerton Oak". According to Legend the ancient local Hundred Court once sat beneath its branches.