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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