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In 1942 I was 14 years old and working in a woollen mill. My father was in the army and I wondered when I would see him again. To encourage me, my maternal grandmother taught me to crochet, with a whale-bone hook which I have to this day. The yarn I scrounged from work from faulty samples that were going to be thrown away.

I wanted to be 'fashionable' and my friends were wearing the popular 'snood' - even Vera Lynn was wearing one; so my granma showed me how to make one.

Since then I've discovered 1940's weekends and I found that snoods were very much in demand, so starting with a few, their popularity has grown so much that people call me 'The Snood Lady'.

For more information on snood's, contact 'The Snood Lady' at:
thesnoodlady@aol.com

This story has been submitted to the People's War site by Becky Barugh of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Joyce McLoughlin and has been added with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

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