Perfect Fathers Day present for grandad

Still in need of ideas for Fathers Day? How about Many Happy Returns 1940s?

Many Happy Returns 1940s is a box of 24 carefully researched reminiscence cards designed to get old and young talking together about how life used to be – a perfect way to entertain both  grandad and the grandchildren on an afternoon visit. 

The cards offer a range of everyday subjects with large images, historical information and conversational prompts – from cigarettes to playing conkers, from evacuation to rationing, from playing in the streets to that very first kiss…

Everyone I have shown these cards to has loved them.  For people over 70, the 1940s was the decade of their lives but even for people born later much of what had happened then touched their lives also.  Families needed to be knitted together again after the long absences and traumas of WW2; rationing started during the war continued as late as 1953. And of course every family has its own stories from that period to be handed down to a generation used to instant communication rather than telegrams, Ipods rather than vinyl records, huge supermarkets rather than the local grocer.

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