Eating in a London Blitz Bomb Shelter

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• JO

  @jonathonsexton4668 · 1 year ago

  "I'm going to the bomb shelter so I need to make sure I have tea, biscuits, and soup cooked for twice as long as it should be" is the most British thing I've ever heard

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• YE

  @yesmisskitten · 1 year ago

  My mom was born in &apos;36, and basically grew up in an air-raid shelter in the northeast - she would talk about my nana pinning a note to her dress with her name &amp; address and then pinning her tin cup to her coat so it wouldn&apos;t get lost going down to the shelter. Once everyone was in &amp; settled, the children were first up with their little cups, they&apos;d get an Oxo cube (beef bouillon), someone would fill it with boiling water, and then a crusty slice of National Loaf dropped in.<br>For her whole life, whenever she was ill or feeling low, a boiling cup of Oxo with a soaking slice of bread was what she craved for comfort, I&apos;d even bring it to her in hospital before she passed. Brightened her right up. She would have <b>loved</b> this channel. ❤

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• DE

  @Dean-xk7kv · 1 year ago

  My favourite thing to do is read the comments of everyone&apos;s grandparent&apos;s stories about these old times. It&apos;s like a second video in itself. Thank you Max for bringing us this side of history

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• SA

  @SarahDawnsDesigns · 1 year ago

  My Grandmother was one of the kids who was sent out to the country - she was sent to rural Wales ,and apparently had quite the trouble there, since not everyone spoke English. &nbsp;She did eventually learn some Welsh though, and, it worked out as best as could be expected, considering she was one of the children who was placed with strangers. <br><br>The story that she would sometimes tell is that, when all was said and done and she was reunited with her parents, they got back and their family home was just. . . gone -- except for the family cat, who was still there, and very, very happy to see the humans again. &nbsp;They had no idea how the cat survived, given the state of the building, and that cat was renamed &apos;Lucky&apos; for the rest of his life. 💙🐾

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• FL

  @flyin4352 · 1 year ago

  My Grandfather&apos;s cousin was actually one of the canteen ladies. She said they cooked the soup so long to make sure everybody could eat it, including babies with very few teeth and seniors with bad teeth. Whether that&apos;s true or not though, couldn&apos;t tell you.

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• EL

  @elnomareeves4401 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Dear Mr. Miller, my family loves to watch your videos. &nbsp;Today’s video I felt missed a very important point. &nbsp;Those hardworking ladies feeding the people in the bomb shelters were the W.V.S. &nbsp;The Women’s Voluntary Service. &nbsp;They did so very much to help the war effort. &nbsp;I thought they deserved to be named. &nbsp;The W.V.S. &nbsp;Helped with the evacuations, grew food, canned jams and other foods and even knitted to help others in Britain and Europe stay warm. &nbsp;These ladies also helped collect rose hips and make rose syrup so the country would not lack for vitamin c. &nbsp; I would love for you to do their rose syrup recipe and share a little of their history.

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• MC

  @mcintoshpc · 1 year ago

  “I am devoutly thankful that we did not adopt a general policy of providing deep and strongly protected shelters.” Me too. I hate it when my citizens can actually survive being bombed.

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• CL

  @clausbitten · 1 year ago

  Maybe the soup had to be mushy because a lot of people actually drank it from a cup or thermos? I guess having a soup bowl/plate was not the best idea in a cramped environment with also the danger of dust etc. falling into the larger surface which would have been much more complicated to cover?

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• CZ

  @czarowli4828 · 1 year ago

  My Nana lived in a suburb outside of Manchester during the Blitz. Her stories have stayed on with me all my life. She told me a story about a Luftwaffe pilot who wrote an apology letter to the town she lived in after he dumped his payload when his aircraft was hit. Nana is one of the strongest women I know, she’s 95 next year, still drives, still cooks still lives by herself. That British iron will is REAL.

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• AV

  @AVisionInFur · 1 year ago

  My maternal grandmother worked in London during the blitz. &nbsp;She didn’t talk about it much but said you could leave belongings in your space in the tube and they would still be there when returning after work. &nbsp;She also said it was a weird feeling heading out each morning to see what didn’t make it through the night. &nbsp;She came to the US in the mid ‘50s, and she never went to watch fireworks on the fourth and didn’t like the smell of frying beef…. If you saw Bomb Girls, that was her. &nbsp;She put detonators in bombs for part of the war, and the chemicals made her very sick. &nbsp;She recovered, but ended up losing part of a lung when she was elderly due to those same chemicals. &nbsp;When things feel tough, I remember her, and I carry on.

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• BL

  @blegher · 1 year ago (edited)

  My first thought of a movie depicting families displaced due to the bombings is the chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe.

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• JO

  @joshuataylor3550 · 1 year ago

  &apos;Deep shelter mentality&apos; is the name of a good heavy metal band.

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