Volunteers for the Forfar Canteen WW2
Taken in the Parish Church hall. My aunt, Hannah Macdonald, is plumb centre. These volunteers - mainly woman, but also a few men not on active service - served in the 'canteen' set up for the troops billeted in Forfar. Just from few faces I'm able to identify, I know it would be possible to construct an interesting social map of the town of that period. I recognise sub-groups such as teachers (eg Mary Easton, a Maths Teacher at Forfar Academy, Miss Mclean, who taught at the Lower Academy); factory "girls" (eg Jessie Middleton, Mary Stewart); shop and office workers, and so on. (One of my cub scout leaders is on it.) Many of the people here did other kinds of of war work, as well as participating in the wide range of social groups that Forfar had in the 1940s and '50s. Active leisure was the norm.
Volunteers for the Forfar Canteen WW2
Taken in the Parish Church hall. My aunt, Hannah Macdonald, is plumb centre. These volunteers - mainly woman, but also a few men not on active service - served in the 'canteen' set up for the troops billeted in Forfar. Just from few faces I'm able to identify, I know it would be possible to construct an interesting social map of the town of that period. I recognise sub-groups such as teachers (eg Mary Easton, a Maths Teacher at Forfar Academy, Miss Mclean, who taught at the Lower Academy); factory "girls" (eg Jessie Middleton, Mary Stewart); shop and office workers, and so on. (One of my cub scout leaders is on it.) Many of the people here did other kinds of of war work, as well as participating in the wide range of social groups that Forfar had in the 1940s and '50s. Active leisure was the norm.