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| We were ahead of our time on several fronts. |
| Judged by our peers |
With no adults to guide (interfere). No modern day support
such as counseling or help lines or career guidance we muddled along
and learnt our lessons the hard way. If you did something wrong or let
others down, it was our fellow club members who kept each other on the
straight and narrow. Now, being judged by one's peers has become a modern
social invention |
| Saving waste paper |
We saved waste paper. We saved it at the stores. It smelt! And what a
fire risk? But I can't remember what we did with it or where it went for
recycling. The area where the paper was stored was partitioned off from
the rest of the room by cream coloured roller blind things. |
| Recycling glass |
We used to collect and save jam jars. Hundreds and thousands of them
. They were stored in boxes on the ground floor below the Stores. I vividly
remember the huge lorry that used to come from Romsey to collect
them when
we had
gathered
enough
to
make
the
lorry's
trip
worth
while. |
| Brainstorming |
The modern American way of comedy script writing for TV is to have, say,
ten writers together tossing ideas about and the result is an amalgam
of the best of those thoughts. We used to do that fifty years ago when
a gang of us would get together at the stores and work out sketches between
us for the forthcoming Show.All with the same sense of humour and
on the same wavelength. Exciting and fun times. |
| The photo strip cartoon |
We took a series of comic photos which told a story. These we made in
Pam's garden at Corfe Mullen. Quite how these photos were to be displayed
I never did discover. |
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Have you any
reminiscences you would like added to this WYG history?
If so, please contact me - Willy.
Scanned photos are also acceptable. Please send them to me as jpegs
and each one no bigger than 30K. Thanks
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