Summary
IT was late November about three years after the war, 1948.
I was about 10 and I remember I was starting to get a bit apprehensive and uptight because my mother had told me that we - me and my two half sisters and a brother - were going to be "rigged out" at Christmas by the Birmingham Mail Christmas Tree Fund, just as we had the two years before. So I knew what to expect and absolutely dreaded it.See the full content of this document
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Free Dress Turned Me Into Princess
The Christmas Tree Fund was set up for families in need or who were going through temporary hardship, donated by well-off people to poorer people like us.
You couldn't pick and choose the clothes, b...See the full content of this document
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