16-08-2024, 07:54 AM
Further to my post regarding the use of a woolen blanket, I should say that the blanket I used for the Pytchley, obtained from the charity shop, was probably made in the 1950's. Totally off thread, but there was a label on the edge of the blanket saying that it was made at Manor Mills, Yeadon, the small weaving town north of Leeds where I was born and where my father had his first job when he left school at the age of 15, which would be have been in 1937. He had to unload bales of wool weighing 1cwt each from wagons. A few years later he was called up to the RAF and set off for Burma stopping in South Africa on the way. The label is still on the back of the head-lining just to the side of the wiper motor!