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Camping Gear 1940/50's Style

Accession Number

1291.2015 .1(a-j)

Object Name

Camping Gear 1940/50's Style

Created

14/12/2015

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

14/12/2015

Brief Description

Items of camping gear

Materials

wool, plastic, metal,

Number Of Objects

10

Provenance

We've archived these few items together as a wonderful little cameo of the 1940/50's camping scene, a time when many of the items so familiar to us in the modern world were not available. All the items were donated in 2015 by a lady called Margaret Berwick and her husband, both of whom were in their late 80's at the time.
Margaret had stuck little labels on most of the items:

"Three food containers - tea, sugar, oatmeal. - my favourite diet"

Much darned socks - good woollen socks were valuable and we mended them - also sewing kit with RAF number on.

Use in camp-
1 pre mixed pancake batter
2 tops for opened milk bottles

Water bag - much better than plastic bottles etc.

Chemists were begged for aluminium( light) cans before the days of polythene.

Billy can - bought in New Zealand.

Egg carrier - the eggs (two only!) would be bought at farms on route."

Fabulous - we just love the egg carrier and it looks like the 'billy' has been used on an open fire - those were the days!

Acquisition Method

Donated by Margaret Berwick

Acquisition Date

14/12/2015

Condition Check Date

14/12/2015

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

14/12/2015

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