The arms trade, UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3805100/US-Senate-supports-1-15billion-sale-military-equipment-Saudi-Arabia-day-Middle-Eastern-kingdom-s-airstrikes-Yemen-killed-32-civilians.html

Code-breaking at Bletchley, UK, during the Second World War.

 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/22/how-high-tech-secret-war-was-born.html

400 doctors from India for the NHS, UK

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3528037/NHS-recruit-400-doctors-India-desperate-bid-plug-staffing-crisis.html

The Village Sleeps Again 1962, UK.

Look at Life -

https://youtu.be/wJ-R-CuZlAk

UK wartime spy, 93, finally recognised for part in liberating France

Phyllis Latour Doyle spent years gathering information on German positions and risked her life to send a total of 135 coded messages back to Britain before the country's 1944 liberation.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2846368/Former-British-wartime-spy-93-finally-recognised-liberating-France-Nazi-occupation-decades-spent-keeping-wartime-service-secret.html

24 November 2014

In the UK in the 1950s - email jksw

Forwarded.

jksw 

From the laptop of Iqbal

-   For those of you who are old enough to remember, enjoy.  For the rest - it's a history lesson!! Very surprising how time and memory has taken its toll. Have things really changed  this much in our time?          EATING IN THE UK IN THE  FIFTIES AND EARLY SIXTIES        Pasta had not been  invented.      Curry was a surname.      A takeaway was a mathematical  problem.      A pizza was something to do with  a leaning tower.      Bananas and oranges only  appeared at Christmas time.      All crisps were plain; the only  choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not.      A Chinese chippy was a foreign  carpenter.      Rice was a milk pudding, and  never, ever part of our dinner.      A Big Mac was what we wore when  it was raining.      Brown bread was something only  poor people ate.      Oil was for lubricating, fat was  for cooking      Tea was made in a teapot using  tea leaves and never green.      Coffee was Camp, and came in a  bottle.      Cubed sugar was regarded as  posh.      Only Heinz made  beans.      Fish didn't have fingers in  those days.      Eating raw fish was called  poverty, not sushi.      None of us had ever heard of  yoghurt.      Healthy food consisted of  anything edible.      People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.      Indian restaurants were only  found in India.      Cooking outside was called  camping.      Seaweed was not a recognised  food.      "Kebab" was not even a word  never mind a food.      Sugar enjoyed a good press in  those days, and was regarded as being white gold.      Prunes were  medicinal.      Surprisingly muesli was readily  available, it was called cattle feed.      Pineapples came in chunks in a  tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.     Water came out of the tap, if  someone had suggested bottling it and charging more than petrol for it  they would have become a laughing stock.     The one thing that we never ever had on our table at meal time in the fifties .. was elbows!

Birmingham, Uk. email sent by Kamalini Kanapathippillai.

Subject: Back to school-A sign Of the Times

Registry on the first day back at school in Birmingham.

The teacher began calling out the names of the pupils:-

"Mustafa Al Eih Zeri?" "Here." 
"Achmed El Kabul?" "Here."
"Fatima Al Hayek? " "Here."
"Ali Abdul Olmi?" "Here."
"Mohammed Bin Kadir?" "Here."
"Ali Son al Len” - Silence in the classroom
"Ali Son al Len" - Continued silence as everyone looked around the room.

The teacher repeated the call.

A girl stood up and said, "Sorry teacher. I think that's me. It's pronounced Alison Allen.... 

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