"For a long time you didn't believe that it was real" : living through World War II in Hamilton: Entertainment

"For a long time you didn't believe that it was real" : living through World War II in Hamilton

		Background
		Family
		Education
		Southwell School
		Holidays
		Values
		Social
		Hamilton
		Depression
		Marsden
		Entertainment
		Effect of World War II
		Social
		World War II
		Women's Auxiliary Volunteer Corps

Entertainment

Discusses music, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. Gramophones, memory of first radio.

Hamilton Operatic and pantomimes, movies on Saturday afternoon, serials more important than movie.

Mentions Peachgrove Road circus, fire there one night.

Ambition to perform, sing, mentions local singer Myra Booth. Joan left school to look after her mother, older sister couldn't realise her ambition to be a teacher either (became father's secretary).