Residents from Vecta House in Newport were recently treated to a special visit to the Wight Military And Heritage Museum.
Harold and Doreen got to enjoy all the memorabilia the museum had on show. Having both worked in the forces, this trip brought back many memories for the pair.
Harold soon took over the role as a tour guide having great knowledge of the rifles and other items on display, while Doreen reminisced of how she used to ride her bicycle to deliver letters during the war and how she also used to work in the factory packing rifles and driving the lorries.
The staff at the museum spent time talking to the staff and residents from Vecta House about the memorabilia, and after they had finished enjoying the various displays, the residents were able to hold and fire some of the guns.
Harold said:
“It was a really lovely morning it was a very interesting visit. I want to go every day it brought back so many memories”.
Tanya Everson, Lifestyle Leader at Vecta House, has said:
“It is really important both to us and the residents that our trips out are meaningful, it was so wonderful to see the joy on Harold and Doreen’s faces and hearing them reminisce about the past. We all had lots of laughter, it will be a trip I will never forget”.
How lovely for the pair, and how lovely that Doreen like many British women worked in an arms factory, and drove lorries during the war.
So ‘unlike’ the Ukrainians women leaving their menfolk to fight, when they too could stay behind and do their ‘bit’ for the war and to be there for the men.
Merely economic migrants under the ‘guise’ of ‘war and pretending they wish to return’ imo. We will be keeping them and their descendants forever more now.
At least they are European I guess, but these are ‘as well as’, not unfortunately, ‘instead of’ the usual ‘delights’ we now love to import.
Despicable attitude
But clearly painfully true.