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Gordon Booth · 30-03-2011, 20:56

Garindas' post(13) mentions a video about POWs in Oswaldtwistle and on the video I saw Mary Clarke. She was my best friends stepmother and told us about the locals having the POWs in their homes at Christmas. She said they all took turns to sing the carols of their homelands-English, German and I think Italian at one time. She said they all ended up in tears. When you think how small rations were after the war it was very generous of them, can't have been much to share.

30-03-2011, 20:56	#25
Gordon Booth Senior Member+ Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 2,402 Liked: 715 times Rep Power: 46613	Re: Accrington's 'Little Italy?' Garindas' post(13) mentions a video about POWs in Oswaldtwistle and on the video I saw Mary Clarke. She was my best friends stepmother and told us about the locals having the POWs in their homes at Christmas. She said they all took turns to sing the carols of their homelands-English, German and I think Italian at one time. She said they all ended up in tears. When you think how small rations were after the war it was very generous of them, can't have been much to share.