Easter Past & Present ..

[Eleena]

Some pics from Easters past..
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/vintage-easter-trends-by-decade/

[pastafreak]

Oh my...some of those brought back memories. I loved decorating and dying eggs with my mum. And Easter was always the time for a new spring outfit for Sunday Mass. Particularly a flowery hat and very shiney, very stiff patent leather shoes.

[mallyh]

the first easter egg my sister got was made of some kind of sugary water in an egg shape with a hole at one end and a scene of rabbits etc inside made from cardboard , couldn't eat it but she kept it for years until it just fell to pieces.x

[Eleena]

For me too pasta. Did you notice this year there were many 'different' styles of chocolate eggs? I like the traditional egg. I did find a link with some eggs from years past, but it came with annoying pop ups.
mally, sounds really sweet.

[woofgang]

mally I had one of those sugar eggs! I kept it for years then ate it.

[Old_Geezer]

To be honest there were few photos there that related to my memories. Easter was about chocolate eggs, not dying real ones. No blue lips. No searching for eggs. Church might have been on the cards, didn't get away until after confirmation, but I've no memory of it. Either I've forgotten, or was away at grandma's maybe, and excused. Who knows. All looks rather American to me.

[Eleena]

Those pics at og, but I certainly dyed eggs.

[Eleena]

*are*

[maggiebee]

We used to put our hard boiled eggs in the teapot to dye them brown then decorate them with paints. Always got an Easter basket and a new outfit for church. Went for a picnic and to roll my egg in the afternoon.

[Eleena]

Some retro chocolate eggs ...

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/Superpest/retro-easter-eggs/

[Eleena]

From the tea leaves presumably maggie, no I never did that. We just boiled them in water with food dye added.

[pastafreak]

My mum bought one of these kits every year...

https://www.google.com/search?q=1950s+egg+dyeing+kits&client=tablet-android-samsung&;source=android-browser&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&;sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGoN_dlOHhAhWsMewKHQDDCaoQ_AUoAXoECAwQAQ&biw=768&;bih=1024#imgrc=NdVxigGLl43TWM

[Eleena]

So what did the kit contain pasta?

[pastafreak]

As stated on the packet..."colour tablets", plus instructions, paper stick ons, transfers, etc.
All for 29-39p.

[Eleena]

Ah o.k, nice traditions children remember x

[Eleena]

Off for a siesta after a mammoth clean up ... inside and outside.

[Ken4155]

As kids, we were usually taken down to 'Pendle Bottom' where, among other things, there were swing boats (a line of about 4 or 5, i think), stalls selling plastic windmills, a monkey in a cage (wasn't always the same monkey - i'm sure one died and was replaced) and there was also a little shop that sold sweets and pop (probably sold many other things, too, but we were only interested in the sweets and pop. There is a photograph somewhere in my families possession which shows me (about 9 or 10) my brother (7 or 8) my cousin Trudy (12 or 13) and my mother (late 20s) all dressed up to the nines on our way to the festivities. I look as if i'm stood to attention - as i did in most photographs those days - which may have been a sign i was army-bound :-)

[Eleena]

Ken, I just love your description of your past. Shame about the monkey, but I think that must have been a tradition from the past kept on. I used to visit a place called Belle Vue .. it was normal practice for a photographer to stand with a monkey and you had your pic stood with it, cruel but you didn't think of that at the time. I still have that pic. Traditions were more formal from years ago weren't they than they are now, all looks so quaint somehow.

[Theland]

Oh the days of close community.

[andres]

Ken--I remember the monkey and the talking mynah bird. The boat swings and the lake at Roughlee. In fact we lived just over the hill at Newchurch-in-Pendle.