Being a small kid in the 1960s, the big highlights of the Autumn were Guy Fawkes Night and the Harvest Festival. Farmers would host a Harvest Dinner. We used to bring in foods to school to make up a display on the school stage. The local church would also do a similar display and hold a service. We would make a Guy by stuffing old clothes with newspaper. Then a group of us kids would wheel it around in an old pushchair. Asking people for "A penny for the Guy". I never remember Halloween being a thing when I was a kid? It was more a later US Import to me.
@@corringhamdepot4434 l loved harvest festival. My favourite hymn was, Come ye thankful people come. My brother spent day's making the Guy for bonfire night.
@@joanmatchett8100 We used to make Guy masks by covering a balloon with strips of newspaper soaked in flour paste. Then cutting it in half when it dried.
@@corringhamdepot4434 l remember my brother doing that for the Guy's head, he bought the mask from Woolworths. Very similar to the one's Anonymous wear.
@@jen3092 The current incarnation of Halloween is 100% copied from American movies. Taking dressed up kid's around to collect sweets from decorated houses is a very recent "tradition" in the UK.
Though we can't go back in time we can control what happens in our own home. Try no screen time hours and try doing some chores the old ways...it can help.
@@TheresaHoward-w9n I’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying hard to cut down , I’ve got rid of FB but still reaching for my phone every time I sit down with a coffee after trying to keep busy . I might have to get a crossword book or something to exercise my brain . The struggle is real ! 😤
@@JAN-o7b crosswords are a brilliant idea and you cN get a cheap book of them at just about every dollar or pound store. I have a jigsaw puzzle out on one of our side tables that I go to when I am bored too.
Wow.. when did the uk become America? And no I’m not talking about the video content, but rather the comments section! So many Brits insisting that because eTHeY personally don’t remember celebrating Halloween in the uk back then, that therefore no one did. That’s so very American insisting terms of how most Americans assume how it is in the states is the same in the rest of the world. Get out of your bubble people! People in the uk did in fact, celebrate Halloween in the 40s! My grandma in Swansea celebrated it with her siblings. They were allowed to lick their finger and dip it in The hot chocolate as a Halloween treat. They made costumes and played games and did shadow puppets. My great grandma used to love their plays they’d put on of ghost stories. Grandma’s favourite story is one year when it was really cold, and the gas man couldn’t get to the house to fill up the tank, they drew faces on plant pots and put candles in them to keep warm, instead of carving a turnip. They weren’t allowed to take it to the bedroom and so they all slept in the living room keeping each other awake and annoying their mum (my great grandma). There were approximately 40million people in the uk in 1940. You don’t speak for them all!
My parents are 80 & 85 and here in the North East of England children indeed celebrated Halloween. Apple bobbing, having treats, making hats and masks, carving our turnips was all done. They didn’t have much but they had creativity and everything was home made.
I grew up in Scotland, and Halloween was a big tradition there (as it always was in Ireland). We used to make ‘tumshie lanterns’ from swedes and we went out ‘guising’- that’s what we called ‘trick or treat’. We also ‘dooked’ for apples and had other games. Halloween was never celebrated in the South of England. It was always Guy Fawkes’ night instead. Most of this new Halloween stuff comes from America- but I suppose that’s come full circle, as it would have originated in the US among the Scots and Irish settlers.
I find it amusing that some people feel so triggered and personally affronted by this video. I thought it was wonderful! Your channel makes me feel warm and cozy and I will continue to look forward to all of your videos ❤️
I think the same. I often wonder how my grandmother’s were back then. They got married in the 40’s. My grandma still had 1940’s kitchen etc in the 80’s. So seeing this video makes me think of her. ❤
It's a shame that so many people are being so condescending in the comments. I loved this video!!! I adore Halloween and Halloween history. Thank you for this marvelous content and you make a fab pinup witch!
I’m a new subscriber and fell in love with your channel! So sorry there are people who will never be happy and have to show it with rude comments. Love the spoopy vintage vibes ❤ look forward to seeing what’s next.
What a beautiful old church!!! Oh and just discovered the channel and love it!! I’ve always been fascinated about this time in history!!! So much so, that I’d sit at the kitchen table and listen to my parents and grandparents talk about it and answer my questions. All the while, my nieces and nephews(I’m only a few years older than them) would be outside playing!!!
In Cumbria (North of England) we used to make turnip lanterns at Hallowe'en. A lot harder to cut than a pumpkin but I can still remember the cosy smell of the candle burning inside the turnip! We called them 'Jack o' Lanterns',
Before Christians, people celebrated samhain which is a pagen festival which marked the end of summer and the beginning of the darker half of the year. And was also part of celtic culture
This is where carrots came into superstar status. Because they are naturally sweet they were used in recipes such as carrot cake, carrot cookies, carrot pudding and carrot marmalade Turnips were traditionally carved out to make lanterns before pumpkins came to Britain
I think your video was very entertaining and I love the thought of returning back to an era with no TV, no internet and no social media. Your creativity is so entertaining!
Your videos are so interesting and I enjoy them so much. I'm fascinated by this time in history.Love how Raggedy Ann keeps popping up in different places. 🥰🎃
Wow who knew a retro Halloween video could bother so many people?? Whether your family did or didn't celebrate Halloween, this was cute and entertaining 🖤🧡
I agree - CHILL! She got most of it right and that is what matters and that she is enjoying what she is doing. I personally love the 1930's-1940's. I love your decor. I use to have two grandmothers who had 1930-1940 decor and somehow it got passed on to me.
@@ashleyd2472 We got our first pumpkin in 1994 from a farm shop. Before then, most kids carved turnips or swedes unless they were able to grow a pumpkin from seeds
I was a kid in the 1970s UK, London. And all i remember about Halloween was spooky stories told at school or on kids tv programmes. Guy Fawkes night was the big thing around that time, with kids building their own penny for the guy, and either, haning round streets/shops asking for pennies, or knocking on doors.
I really enjoyed this video! My Mum was only seven years old when the War started, in 1939. She told me that her parents and three sisters lived on a farm in the rural area of the Samilkamine area of British Columbia, so they did not have Halloween. They were the only white family on the Native Reserve, so Halloween wasn't celebrated. Mum's 92 years old, now, and remembers more about Christmas than any other holiday. It is nice to see what things were like for those in Britain! ~Janet in Canada
Pumpkins are a fairly recent thing in the UK. We usedto carve swedes. Took more time but you could still east the insides. In 70s my Grandfather used to grow one as big as he could for me. Oh the smell of burning swede, thats a fab memory.
This is what I said with the last video my mum told me that they used to carve turnips but because they went as soft and fleshy as a pumpkin it was really hard to carve them
I didn't get my witch costume done in time for halloween so I am finishing it up now and this is perfect for making me pretend it's not late 😂 An excellent video, I really loved it! So interesting to hear about war time halloween in britain vs here in the US where one of the only things we COULD do was carve pumpkins
I wish making homemade treats was still allowed. My mother grew up in the 40s and 50s in her small town trick or treating with neighbors handing out wonderful homemade goodies. Even when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s it was already seen as dangerous unless you were at someone's Halloween party. Now it seems most children don't go trick or treating unless it's a trunk or treat or they take the kids to 4 or 5 houses and head home, and no one decorates.
Oh no! I’m sad to hear that. My childhood in New England had homemade treats like cookies and popcorn balls as well as wrapped candy. It was cold too! And we were invited into neighbors homes! This was mid 1980s. My children aren’t invited inside, but my current neighborhood is rocking like a block party until 9pm on Halloween. The parents often sit at the end of their driveway with tables full of candy and some adults with drinks in their hands. Absolutely smashing Halloween- at least in our suburban neighborhood here in US.
When you haven't had much sugar for a while, it takes less sugar to get a satisfyingly sweet taste. It's as if the more we have, the more desensitised to the sweetness we become.
I so love your video's. Can I ask, do you live as 1940's all the time? And how you got started changing/living as 1940's? What sites/books do you find helps you with this time period 1940's? Thank you for all you share
Wow. Maple syrup causing a scandal 😅😅 here in the comments! I love love your videos. You could say the moon was blue in the 1940s and I would totally enjoy your videos! I look forward to them. Thank you!!
I think you’d have been very lucky to get a bar of chocolate that big. No curfews and definitely no trick or treating. They would’ve played Bob apple and told ghost stories and played games. Great video though and I love your fashion x
Since Halloween is right after canning season and you got an extra sugar ration to can jams and preserves, I honestly don't think it was as much of an issue as you'd think. As to the butter, my grandmother used to use lard in hers. No difference in taste.
My mum has one similar to that on her bed. she will be 86 in December and remembers those days. She always has a sweet jar on the kitchen table and also uses a teapot and cup and saucer
This was interesting. From my dim and distant memory, Halloween really wasn't a thing for me in 1970's Nottingham. The most I remember is apple bobbing at school. I didn't become aware of the full sugar fuelled mayhem of Halloween until I became a parent, and I put this down to American influence. I wonder if the rationing of sugar had an impact that echoed all the way down to the 70's?
I work in a primary school and have been doing world war 2 for history, we make chocolate spread and during the war they used potatoes to make it, so I was wondering if the chocolate was made the same way
It would be interesting to try the apple recipe. My American Girl Molly doll would have to help me as she is a character growing up during WWII in Illinois, USA. American Girl used to have cook and craft books for several of their older American Girl characters. They also had a few special ones, including a Halloween craft kit for Molly. Donuts were popular to give as Halloween treats as well. In Ireland, people used to carve turnips at Halloween time. When they were introduced to pumpkins, they preferred them due to being easier to carve.
My mum was born in Nottingham in 1941 her sister followed in 1944 actually born on Halloween 🎃. But she said when they were children they were never really aware of Halloween. She can't remember people making a big thing of Halloween when she was a child.
I love this! The apples look wonderful! And to be fair, American Hershey's still tastes like that. It's terrible. I remember we had some of those tissue paper pumpkins when I was little. It's strange to realize how much I've missed them now.
Thank you for an entertaining video. I know creating and editing it took a chunk of your time and I appreciate it. No complaints or cranky comments from me.
Yes I remember my Mamma telling me about May day and dancing around the May pole, that would be far more interesting. From what she said Halloween ( as it is celebrated today) wasn't something anybody did here it's an American import she said nobody ever did trick and treating as it's seen as begging. Even when I was little in the 80s you were hard pressed to find Halloween costumes.
@@yasmingeorge5173 We did have "penny for the Guy", the money was for fireworks. That seems to have died out where I live. They set fireworks off here, before and after bonfire night, it spoils it for me, we always saved ours, just for the night.
In Australia we don't do Halloween. I know some shops and people are trying to make a go out of it, but honestly I think it's just another way for big companies to squeeze more money out of the little person. I'm a ptacticing pagan and being in the southern hemisphere Samhain isn't celebrated until April/May. Am loving learning about the 1940s in the UK and I love your costume 🖤🔮🖤
I’m an adult American Girl collector and yes to Molly! Perhaps her English friend, Emily, celebrated as well. Back in the early 2000s, American Girl put out a Molly Halloween craft book (as well as Christmas and Valentine ones for Samantha). I like them (I don’t have Sam’s Valentine one yet).
Did people actually celebrate Halloween back then in Britain? My in laws were children in Britain and never mentioned this , they both have since passed, I know about candy apples and all that but private homes in working class Britain, I never knew
I was born in 1952 and all we did for Halloween was wander around our local street in the dark, something we wouldn't have been allowed to do at any other time of the year. We'd tuck at apples hanging from string or bobbed apples in a bowl of water. We never knocked on doors and had never heard of trick or treat, we never decorated either. It was just one night, not like today when people seen to decorate way before the night.
Well, interestingly, some did, and this is based on an account from the BBC archives in 2005 of a Leicestershire man reminicing about his halloween celebrations during the war. ❤
I'm guessing that it wasn't as popular and commercial is nowadays I think what this other person probably is thinking of is that it was celebrated but not half as much as we do today ? It's become more and more popular since the 80s I find it hard to believe that nobody at all celebrated it before then ? @@Realvintagedollshouse
I was meant to say Lyles Golden syrup 😂 which was going strong in the 40s www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/lyles-through-world-war-2/ yes my bad on the mistaken title of the syrup there!
Love! Where did you get the Ration chocolate? I’m in the US and did a quick search with no results. Does Cadbury produce those bars still today for niche enthusiasts like yourself?
We would have called them toffee apples in the U.K. candy is an American name and I doubt many people would have heard of that over here during that time.
Being a small kid in the 1960s, the big highlights of the Autumn were Guy Fawkes Night and the Harvest Festival. Farmers would host a Harvest Dinner. We used to bring in foods to school to make up a display on the school stage. The local church would also do a similar display and hold a service.
We would make a Guy by stuffing old clothes with newspaper. Then a group of us kids would wheel it around in an old pushchair. Asking people for "A penny for the Guy". I never remember Halloween being a thing when I was a kid? It was more a later US Import to me.
@@corringhamdepot4434 l loved harvest festival. My favourite hymn was, Come ye thankful people come. My brother spent day's making the Guy for bonfire night.
@@joanmatchett8100 We used to make Guy masks by covering a balloon with strips of newspaper soaked in flour paste. Then cutting it in half when it dried.
@@corringhamdepot4434 l remember my brother doing that for the Guy's head, he bought the mask from Woolworths. Very similar to the one's Anonymous wear.
@@jen3092 The current incarnation of Halloween is 100% copied from American movies. Taking dressed up kid's around to collect sweets from decorated houses is a very recent "tradition" in the UK.
@@jen3092 I will trust over 60 years of personal experience, over your Dunning Kruger "expertise anytime.
Just wish I could go back in time and live without social media and so much technology and small things made people happy . 😊
Though we can't go back in time we can control what happens in our own home. Try no screen time hours and try doing some chores the old ways...it can help.
@@TheresaHoward-w9n I’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying hard to cut down , I’ve got rid of FB but still reaching for my phone every time I sit down with a coffee after trying to keep busy . I might have to get a crossword book or something to exercise my brain . The struggle is real ! 😤
@@JAN-o7b crosswords are a brilliant idea and you cN get a cheap book of them at just about every dollar or pound store. I have a jigsaw puzzle out on one of our side tables that I go to when I am bored too.
@@TheresaHoward-w9n Oh yeah I do love jigsaws, I find them very relaxing with a cup of tea and some peaceful music , thanks 🙏 😊
Me too
Wow.. when did the uk become America? And no I’m not talking about the video content, but rather the comments section! So many Brits insisting that because eTHeY personally don’t remember celebrating Halloween in the uk back then, that therefore no one did. That’s so very American insisting terms of how most Americans assume how it is in the states is the same in the rest of the world. Get out of your bubble people! People in the uk did in fact, celebrate Halloween in the 40s! My grandma in Swansea celebrated it with her siblings. They were allowed to lick their finger and dip it in The hot chocolate as a Halloween treat. They made costumes and played games and did shadow puppets. My great grandma used to love their plays they’d put on of ghost stories. Grandma’s favourite story is one year when it was really cold, and the gas man couldn’t get to the house to fill up the tank, they drew faces on plant pots and put candles in them to keep warm, instead of carving a turnip. They weren’t allowed to take it to the bedroom and so they all slept in the living room keeping each other awake and annoying their mum (my great grandma).
There were approximately 40million people in the uk in 1940. You don’t speak for them all!
Who’s getting offended??????
My parents are 80 & 85 and here in the North East of England children indeed celebrated Halloween.
Apple bobbing, having treats, making hats and masks, carving our turnips was all done.
They didn’t have much but they had creativity and everything was home made.
I grew up in Scotland, and Halloween was a big tradition there (as it always was in Ireland). We used to make ‘tumshie lanterns’ from swedes and we went out ‘guising’- that’s what we called ‘trick or treat’. We also ‘dooked’ for apples and had other games.
Halloween was never celebrated in the South of England. It was always Guy Fawkes’ night instead. Most of this new Halloween stuff comes from America- but I suppose that’s come full circle, as it would have originated in the US among the Scots and Irish settlers.
I find it amusing that some people feel so triggered and personally affronted by this video. I thought it was wonderful! Your channel makes me feel warm and cozy and I will continue to look forward to all of your videos ❤️
I think the same. I often wonder how my grandmother’s were back then. They got married in the 40’s. My grandma still had 1940’s kitchen etc in the 80’s. So seeing this video makes me think of her. ❤
So many making Halloween seem evil!! I loved it as a kid and still do!! Love your war time presentation!! And LOVE your ruby red slippers and lips!!
Don't I know it! We had so many fun treats, spooky stories, and imaginative costumes! The whole neighborhood made it really awesome for us kids.
It's a shame that so many people are being so condescending in the comments. I loved this video!!! I adore Halloween and Halloween history. Thank you for this marvelous content and you make a fab pinup witch!
I’m a new subscriber and fell in love with your channel! So sorry there are people who will never be happy and have to show it with rude comments. Love the spoopy vintage vibes ❤ look forward to seeing what’s next.
What a beautiful old church!!! Oh and just discovered the channel and love it!! I’ve always been fascinated about this time in history!!! So much so, that I’d sit at the kitchen table and listen to my parents and grandparents talk about it and answer my questions. All the while, my nieces and nephews(I’m only a few years older than them) would be outside playing!!!
In Cumbria (North of England) we used to make turnip lanterns at Hallowe'en. A lot harder to cut than a pumpkin but I can still remember the cosy smell of the candle burning inside the turnip! We called them 'Jack o' Lanterns',
Before Christians, people celebrated samhain which is a pagen festival which marked the end of summer and the beginning of the darker half of the year. And was also part of celtic culture
We still celebrate samhain here in Ireland in my house anyway 😊
This is where carrots came into superstar status. Because they are naturally sweet they were used in recipes such as carrot cake, carrot cookies, carrot pudding and carrot marmalade
Turnips were traditionally carved out to make lanterns before pumpkins came to Britain
I think your video was very entertaining and I love the thought of returning back to an era with no TV, no internet and no social media. Your creativity is so entertaining!
Great video. When in vintage mode Besame is also my go to. Victory red is one of my favorite colors.
Your videos are so interesting and I enjoy them so much. I'm fascinated by this time in history.Love how Raggedy Ann keeps popping up in different places. 🥰🎃
Wow who knew a retro Halloween video could bother so many people?? Whether your family did or didn't celebrate Halloween, this was cute and entertaining 🖤🧡
I agree - CHILL! She got most of it right and that is what matters and that she is enjoying what she is doing. I personally love the 1930's-1940's. I love your decor. I use to have two grandmothers who had 1930-1940 decor and somehow it got passed on to me.
Thanks for a trip back in time especially to my favourite season. We're trying to do cinder toffee and toffee apples at the weekend.
ah, cinder toffee! That's something you don't hear about often now!
Love the added raggedy anne having her annabelle moment👻
I remember homemade treacle toffee apples and turnip lanterns in the 90s. Pumpkins were hard to find in those days
In the *1990s*? I was born in the late 80s and I've never seen a carved turnip in real life.
@@ashleyd2472 We got our first pumpkin in 1994 from a farm shop. Before then, most kids carved turnips or swedes unless they were able to grow a pumpkin from seeds
I was a kid in the 1970s UK, London. And all i remember about Halloween was spooky stories told at school or on kids tv programmes. Guy Fawkes night was the big thing around that time, with kids building their own penny for the guy, and either, haning round streets/shops asking for pennies, or knocking on doors.
I really enjoyed this video! My Mum was only seven years old when the War started, in 1939. She told me that her parents and three sisters lived on a farm in the rural area of the Samilkamine area of British Columbia, so they did not have Halloween. They were the only white family on the Native Reserve, so Halloween wasn't celebrated. Mum's 92 years old, now, and remembers more about Christmas than any other holiday. It is nice to see what things were like for those in Britain! ~Janet in Canada
I love this! Wonderfully done! ❤
Pumpkins are a fairly recent thing in the UK. We usedto carve swedes. Took more time but you could still east the insides. In 70s my Grandfather used to grow one as big as he could for me. Oh the smell of burning swede, thats a fab memory.
This is what I said with the last video my mum told me that they used to carve turnips but because they went as soft and fleshy as a pumpkin it was really hard to carve them
@@LoveisIt...my Mam used to use her drill when she got fed up.
What the heck is a swede? A Swede in America is an immigrant from Sweden.
@@thepropladyRutabaga
A lot of people roast and eat pumpkin seeds, and some types of pumpkins have flesh for cooking and baking.
Delightful! What a beautiful witch you transformed into! 🍁🎃🍁👻
I just wanted to let you know the video you made in honor of your Grandmother was just beautiful. Thank you for sharing that . 🙏
I didn't get my witch costume done in time for halloween so I am finishing it up now and this is perfect for making me pretend it's not late 😂 An excellent video, I really loved it! So interesting to hear about war time halloween in britain vs here in the US where one of the only things we COULD do was carve pumpkins
I always enjoy your videos. I tried growing pumpkins this year but only produced 2 very small ones😂
You did a great job on this video. Happy Halloween.
I wish making homemade treats was still allowed. My mother grew up in the 40s and 50s in her small town trick or treating with neighbors handing out wonderful homemade goodies. Even when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s it was already seen as dangerous unless you were at someone's Halloween party. Now it seems most children don't go trick or treating unless it's a trunk or treat or they take the kids to 4 or 5 houses and head home, and no one decorates.
We don’t get trick or treaters anymore. We used to get quite a few back when my brother and I were kids in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Oh no! I’m sad to hear that. My childhood in New England had homemade treats like cookies and popcorn balls as well as wrapped candy. It was cold too! And we were invited into neighbors homes! This was mid 1980s. My children aren’t invited inside, but my current neighborhood is rocking like a block party until 9pm on Halloween. The parents often sit at the end of their driveway with tables full of candy and some adults with drinks in their hands. Absolutely smashing Halloween- at least in our suburban neighborhood here in US.
Awwww loved this so much!!
Great video loved the history in fun way too xx
Lovely to watch and lots of interesting information x
When you haven't had much sugar for a while, it takes less sugar to get a satisfyingly sweet taste.
It's as if the more we have, the more desensitised to the sweetness we become.
I loved every moment! 🎃
🧡🎃🧡🎃 Lovely video and I adore your witch costume. Happy Halloween!🎃
This was fascinating!
Perfect Halloween outfit! Loved watching this ❤❤
I so love your video's. Can I ask, do you live as 1940's all the time? And how you got started changing/living as 1940's? What sites/books do you find helps you with this time period 1940's? Thank you for all you share
Wow. Maple syrup causing a scandal 😅😅 here in the comments!
I love love your videos. You could say the moon was blue in the 1940s and I would totally enjoy your videos! I look forward to them. Thank you!!
I love when Betty photobombs your video!
I think you’d have been very lucky to get a bar of chocolate that big. No curfews and definitely no trick or treating. They would’ve played Bob apple and told ghost stories and played games. Great video though and I love your fashion x
Love the outfit, more like that, please❤❤❤
Thank you for such a comfy video
Love your videos, focus on all the lovely positive comments you get. ❤
Love these day in the life 1940 version xx
Great video, I think rationing will be back, sooner than we all think !
Here in Ireland we would have carved turnips. My mam still does but i opt for the easy option and carve the pumpkin 😅
I think a lot of Irish people (at least those who came to live in the US) started to use pumpkins because they were easier to carve.
Thanks for this video. I love finding out how holidays were celebrated during WWII.
I was born in the 1970s and we used to carve turnip lanterns! Lovely video ❤
love the vintage living ♥♥♥️
Lovely video, thank you🧡🎃🧡
Since Halloween is right after canning season and you got an extra sugar ration to can jams and preserves, I honestly don't think it was as much of an issue as you'd think. As to the butter, my grandmother used to use lard in hers. No difference in taste.
Thank you for the video. Well done.
I just love the doll on the bed....IT s really special ❤❤❤❤.
My mum has one similar to that on her bed. she will be 86 in December and remembers those days. She always has a sweet jar on the kitchen table and also uses a teapot and cup and saucer
This was interesting. From my dim and distant memory, Halloween really wasn't a thing for me in 1970's Nottingham. The most I remember is apple bobbing at school. I didn't become aware of the full sugar fuelled mayhem of Halloween until I became a parent, and I put this down to American influence. I wonder if the rationing of sugar had an impact that echoed all the way down to the 70's?
You've brought back memories of bobbing for apples, different topic but around 5th November does anyone recall 'penny for the guy'?
Pumpkins is a fairly new thing her in the UK. We used to carve sweeds
Ope, Annabelle reference!
I work in a primary school and have been doing world war 2 for history, we make chocolate spread and during the war they used potatoes to make it, so I was wondering if the chocolate was made the same way
This was a fun video!
It would be interesting to try the apple recipe. My American Girl Molly doll would have to help me as she is a character growing up during WWII in Illinois, USA. American Girl used to have cook and craft books for several of their older American Girl characters. They also had a few special ones, including a Halloween craft kit for Molly. Donuts were popular to give as Halloween treats as well.
In Ireland, people used to carve turnips at Halloween time. When they were introduced to pumpkins, they preferred them due to being easier to carve.
My mum was born in Nottingham in 1941 her sister followed in 1944 actually born on Halloween 🎃. But she said when they were children they were never really aware of Halloween. She can't remember people making a big thing of Halloween when she was a child.
I love this! The apples look wonderful! And to be fair, American Hershey's still tastes like that. It's terrible. I remember we had some of those tissue paper pumpkins when I was little. It's strange to realize how much I've missed them now.
We didn’t celebrate Halloween then, but did celebrate Guy Fawkes night with a bonfire.
Thank you for an entertaining video. I know creating and editing it took a chunk of your time and I appreciate it. No complaints or cranky comments from me.
Exactly.
“If you can’t say something nice….”
None of it is factual at all.
Great job!
Some of these comments are unnecessary and rude. I enjoyed it too.
@@Catsface99Go away
Could you do a video about May Day, and the May Queen, we did dress up for that. We used to dance round the Maypole in school.
Yes I remember my Mamma telling me about May day and dancing around the May pole, that would be far more interesting.
From what she said Halloween ( as it is celebrated today) wasn't something anybody did here it's an American import she said nobody ever did trick and treating as it's seen as begging. Even when I was little in the 80s you were hard pressed to find Halloween costumes.
@@yasmingeorge5173 We did have "penny for the Guy", the money was for fireworks. That seems to have died out where I live. They set fireworks off here, before and after bonfire night, it spoils it for me, we always saved ours, just for the night.
This is fantastic!! Love love love! 💜🖤💜🖤🎃
Love your content. 💌💌💌
Love this x i made toffee apple the other day!
You sound just like Kate Winslet. Love this.
Story teller voice ❤️
Hi. Raggedy ann "Annabelle"the posseded doll on the bed , that is perfect to start the video . Noël from Tourcoing in North of France 🇨🇵 Namaste 🙏💖💐
In Australia we don't do Halloween. I know some shops and people are trying to make a go out of it, but honestly I think it's just another way for big companies to squeeze more money out of the little person. I'm a ptacticing pagan and being in the southern hemisphere Samhain isn't celebrated until April/May.
Am loving learning about the 1940s in the UK and I love your costume 🖤🔮🖤
I loved this ❤️ you look so pretty in your 40s outfits. Where did you get your black dress from?
All I can think is of Molly Mcintire the American Girl doll and her Halloween!
I’m an adult American Girl collector and yes to Molly! Perhaps her English friend, Emily, celebrated as well. Back in the early 2000s, American Girl put out a Molly Halloween craft book (as well as Christmas and Valentine ones for Samantha). I like them (I don’t have Sam’s Valentine one yet).
That was so cool, although not a fan of Halloween i still enjoyed the 1940s take.
Can you tell me where you got your overcoat, please, and thanks? I've been looking for a single breasted vintage coat just like this one.
So cool
Love the black dress, where you get it?.
I also want to know!
Where did you find the chocolate ration bars?
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15:18 That was cute 🧹
Love this
My mum said chocolate tasted like the old cooking chocolate.
I spend Halloween like it's the Real Vintage Dolls love louis shirley
Love the video, Idk if you mentioned this before but can you maybe make a video showing how little food rations looked? I'm a visual learner!
There are loads of videos about that already. It's very interesting!
NO WONDER GI's gave their chocolate to the kids in towns they entered. It was a good way to ditch the stuff.
Did people actually celebrate Halloween back then in Britain? My in laws were children in Britain and never mentioned this , they both have since passed, I know about candy apples and all that but private homes in working class Britain, I never knew
I'm from the London area. We never had Halloween when we were children in the 60s and 70s.
I was born in 1952 and all we did for Halloween was wander around our local street in the dark, something we wouldn't have been allowed to do at any other time of the year. We'd tuck at apples hanging from string or bobbed apples in a bowl of water. We never knocked on doors and had never heard of trick or treat, we never decorated either. It was just one night, not like today when people seen to decorate way before the night.
I ❤️your kitchen!
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ha halloween is on a thursday this year too!!!!
I didn't believe Halloween was celebrated in the UK only the US I only heard of it in the UK when my children were in school in the 1980's and 90's
Well, interestingly, some did, and this is based on an account from the BBC archives in 2005 of a Leicestershire man reminicing about his halloween celebrations during the war. ❤
I'm guessing that it wasn't as popular and commercial is nowadays I think what this other person probably is thinking of is that it was celebrated but not half as much as we do today ? It's become more and more popular since the 80s I find it hard to believe that nobody at all celebrated it before then ? @@Realvintagedollshouse
It’s at least celebrated in the 60s like in the Agatha Christie novel.
should have clicked your heels 3 times
Have you tried eating Dark Cooking Chocolate? Lower sugar, less cocoa butter.
it'll put hair on your chest if you can keep from spitting it out; I',m talking 80% and up
In Britain, we use golden syrup, not maple syrup. I've never tasted maple syrup, and neither had my mum who was in the war.
She is also British. Lol
@maragoodger905 Yes, I know 😂 if she was using a 1940s recipe book, it seems to have come from America
I was meant to say Lyles Golden syrup 😂 which was going strong in the 40s www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/lyles-through-world-war-2/ yes my bad on the mistaken title of the syrup there!
Love! Where did you get the Ration chocolate? I’m in the US and did a quick search with no results. Does Cadbury produce those bars still today for niche enthusiasts like yourself?
Is that acutally choclate from then???
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We would have called them toffee apples in the U.K. candy is an American name and I doubt many people would have heard of that over here during that time.
The toffee apples sound interesting. I’m not a fan of candy apples (they’re usually like a red lollipop sort of coating) and prefer caramel apples.
Where are your turnips? Says in my non existent British accent