February 1947? Help

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:19 am

I'm not very much into searching the web, can anyone help with a site where I can get information about what was going on in the world/Britain in February 1947. An Inner Wheel Club is celebrating its 60th anniversary this month and I have to speak at it.

Later in the month I have a 25th anniversary for a club. Now I can remember 1982, but I didn't even visit Britain that year!

A website where I could choose the dates I was interested in would be very useful.

Thanks!

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:59 am

There's plenty about 1947 here : http://www.answers.com/topic/1947

You might need to sift through for February events, although there is a month-by-month listing towards the bottom of the page.

marty · Post by **marty** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:39 pm

If in doubt try Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:32 pm

Thanks, I'm sure I'll be able to find something to say from those sites.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:10 pm

Just tell 'em that in four months from their birth, the birth of J.R. would occur !

1947 must have been an exceptional year !

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:24 pm

J.R. wrote:Just tell 'em that in four months from their birth, the birth of J.R. would occur !

1947 must have been an exceptional year !

Well of course, you and I know that! I also have Dan Quayle (two different dates!), Brian May, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven Spielberg and Hillary Clinton born that year. Edinburgh Festival and Cannes Film Festival both started then, prototype microwave, polaroid camera and photocopier developed- altogether an exceptional year!

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:01 pm

Charlton Athletic won the FA Cup !

Denis Compton and Bill Edrich both scored over 3,000 runs for Middlesex

It was a VERY cold winter apparently!

midget · Post by **midget** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:59 pm

Mid A 15 wrote:Charlton Athletic won the FA Cup !

Denis Compton and Bill Edrich both scored over 3,000 runs for Middlesex

It was a VERY cold winter apparently!

Too right- it was a B****y cold winter. There was a fuel shortage, and we had to economise on baths at Hertford. We got frozen walking from house to school and games were even more of a nightmare than usual. We also had a rubella epidemic in the spring term.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:20 pm

midget wrote:
Mid A 15 wrote:Charlton Athletic won the FA Cup !

Denis Compton and Bill Edrich both scored over 3,000 runs for Middlesex

It was a VERY cold winter apparently!
Too right- it was a B****y cold winter. There was a fuel shortage, and we had to economise on baths at Hertford. We got frozen walking from house to school and games were even more of a nightmare than usual. We also had a rubella epidemic in the spring term.

Was this before the medical profession linked rubella to child deformity with pregnant women, Midget ? Not that I'm suggesting anything, you understand !

midget · Post by **midget** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:15 pm

J.R. wrote:
midget wrote:
Mid A 15 wrote:Charlton Athletic won the FA Cup !

Denis Compton and Bill Edrich both scored over 3,000 runs for Middlesex

It was a VERY cold winter apparently!
Too right- it was a B****y cold winter. There was a fuel shortage, and we had to economise on baths at Hertford. We got frozen walking from house to school and games were even more of a nightmare than usual. We also had a rubella epidemic in the spring term.
Was this before the medical profession linked rubella to child deformity with pregnant women, Midget ? Not that I'm suggesting anything, you understand !

If I say "thanks a lot" it makes me sound paranoid, but few would leave Hertford wihout being mildly so. Yes I think you are right. What annoyed me most was a) itwas the second time I'd had rubella (for the record I had mumps twice as well) and b) I got it the night before my sister's wedding. As a special treat I was to be allowed to go as she was being married in Hertford, but instead spent the time in the infirmary.

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:34 pm

... and Eastburn entered Prep B.

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:09 pm

Katharine.. you could do a lot worse than look at 'Our Hidden Lives', by Simon Garfield. He's at the University of Sussex, where the archives of the Mass-Observation Survey are held. This Survey recorded the diaries of thousands of ordinary people from about 1936 - and continued even after WW2. 'Our Hidden Lives' contains chronological extracts from the diaries of five of the 'ordinary' people from 1st May 1945 to 7th July 1948. It's fascinating and compulsive reading! Simon Garfield last year produced another volume covering the build up to WW2/the Phoney War/the start of WW2 - and due out any time now is the third which is apparently going to cover the Battle of Britain.
There's a new Mass-Observation Project now under way (it was reborn in 1981 I think....) - fascinating, though I don't know anyone who is taking part.
If you can't get your hands on 'Our Hidden Lives' I'd be happy to send you my copy.. providing I get it back!

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:25 pm

The cold was at the end of 1947 - not February. I remember that because I got stuck on railings in the middle of the lake in Windsor Great Park - I had walked out to it on the ice but the adults were frightened that their weight would break the ice. In fact I think they did.

Anyway I was fine until they all started shouting etc. etc.

A matter of the greatest import - not:
KGVI's personal chaplain died on All Saints Day - thought you might like to know. (He was cousin to Faith Lady Compton Mackenzie).

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:33 pm

J.R. wrote:Just tell 'em that in four months from their birth, the birth of J.R. would occur !

1947 must have been an exceptional year !

Excellent year.
I made it 8 days before the end of the year, which means that towards the end of Feb, I might well have been conceived, although more probably it was the following month. (My mother complained that I was late and kept her in over Xmas).
I'm unlikely to find out as she has had a stroke and conversation is variable, to say the least

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:46 pm

Amazing what one finds out about people, on this Forum......sometimes the mind boggles.

Are we still being helpful to you, Katharine?!