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Happy Birthday Bernardette.

Bernardette Bates though she was managing to keep her birthday very quiet but fortunately it leaked out and so some of her friends helped her to celebrate
her big day.
Ann Saunders sneaked her camera into the do
and snapped these photos.
Being the proper gentleman I didn't ask Bernardette her age but she did say that she qualified for her
bus pass.
I didn't know the council issued them at 45?
Other minor things that happened that same year........
  • January 3rd - William Joyce ('Lord Haw Haw') was hanged for treason in the UK
  • January 30th - The inaugural ceremony of the UN General Assembly opened in London. Trygve Lie elected secretary-general
  • February - Rationing gets worse. Butter , margarine and cooking fat was cut from 8 oz (226 gm) to 7 oz (200g) a week. The Ministry of food helpfully circulated a recipe for Squirrel Pie
  • April 5th - Lovely Cottage won the first post-war Grand National Race and Airborne won the Derby
  • May - Winston Churchill addresses Congress at Fulton, Missouri.."A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory....From Stettin to the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has has descended across the continent"
  • June 8th - declared a public holiday in the UK as Victory Day to celebrate the end of the entire war
  • June 30th - America exploded an Atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It cost £8 million to build
  • July 22nd - Jewish dissidents blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem
  • July - Bread was now rationed in the UK due to the parlous economic state. Britians debts had risen from £500 million before the war to £3.5 Billion at the end of the war and now had to go cap in hand to the Americans for a loan
  • October - At the Nazi war Criminal trial in Nuremberg - Hermann Goering, Ribbentrop and 11 others were condemned to be hanged. Rudolf hess was given a life sentence. Goering committed suicide by taking cyanide.
  • December 19th - Hostilities broke out against the French in Indochina
  • The Bank of England, Coal and other industries were Nationalised

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