Look at the answers (right) given by the St. Ann's group to the question "
What were your favourite childhood things?"

 

Our favourite clothes as children:

  • My pink and blue trimmed dress made by my cousin for her wedding

  • My long pink taffeta party dress with gold spots handed down from an older sister and passed on to two younger ones.

  • My matching camel coat and hat

  • My green taffeta dress

  • A pink dress sent from America

  • My football jersey

Favourite books:

  • Ungava by John Buchan

  • Milly Molly Mandy

  • Alice in Wonderland

  • Aesop's Fables

  • Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales

  • What Katie Did

  • Now I am Eight by Shirley Temple

Person I most wanted to be like:

  • My mother

  • Claudette Colbert - a film star!

  • Deanna Durbin - another film star!

  • Errol Flynn - another film star

  • Robin Hood

  • Bing Crosby

My favourite treat as a child:

  • Ice cream

  • Mars bar

  • Saturday penny

  • Any fruit

  • Holiday to Burntisland

Favourite radio programmes from the group were:

  • In Town Tonight

  • ITMA

  • Children's Hour

  • Scottish dance music

  • Larry the Lamb

  • Community hymn singing

Favourite music:

  • Country dance music

  • Brahms "lullaby"

  • Dance music

  • "A Nightingale sang in Berkeley square"

Favourite toys

  • A Flashlight

  • My doll's house

  • My dolls

  • My pram

  • Skates

Hobbies:

  • Sewing

  • Reading

  • Playing board games

  • Knitting

  • Collecting film stars' pictures and photographs

  • Football

  • Tap dancing

  • Highland dancing

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