Save up the vintage way, say experts
Hitler’s terrifying plans to invade Brighton and Ramsgate in 1940 raid
ADVICE on saving money passed down through the generations still holds true today, experts say.
Small purchases should be made with cash rather than contactless cards as it is easier to keep track of spending, the Good Housekeeping Institute said.
It also recommends putting on a jumper when cold instead of switching the central heating on.
Turning down the dial by just 1C can cut energy bills by £75 a year, it said.
Other “vintage” tips on saving include haggling, by asking retailers to match prices elsewhere, selling unwanted items at car boot sales and saving up loose change in a jar.
A GHI spokesman said: “When it comes to thrift, mother and grandmother really do know best.” 48-page book is being sold Germans had detailed map of Dover Map of Folkestone found in the naval archive A DOSSIER has been uncovered that shows how Hitler planned to invade Britain in his own version of the D-Day landings.
The plan was to attack the English coast from Ramsgate, Kent, in the east to Selsey Bill, West Sussex, in the west, using Brighton as the main landing area.
The Nazis aimed to send 100,000 German troops, 650 tanks and 4,500 horses in the first wave of an “exceptionally bold and daring attack”.
A further 500,000 soldiers would then have landed once a bridgehead had been established and fought their way inland.
The details are in a volume compiled by the British from documents recovered from German naval archives after the war.
The blueprint for Operation Sealion, planned for September 1940, is remarkably similar to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy four years later. The Germans were confident that their onslaught, launched from Le Havre, Cherbourg, Boulogne and Ostend, would lead to the “rapid abandonment” of the British defences.
German ships in the Dover Straits would have fired “powerful artillery” at mainland Britain during the attack.
The first objective was to occupy south east England, from the mouth of the Thames down to Southampton.
Hitler’s invasion did not go ahead Luftwaffe graphic of Dartford in Kent The Germans also planned a diversionary attack to the north between Aberdeen and Newcastle.
Hitler believed Operation Sealion would lead to a “rapid conclusion” of the war. But it depended on the Luftwaffe gaining air superiority over the British by mid-September.
The RAF won the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940, scuppering Operation Sealion.
Copies of the 48-page book “German Plans for the Invasion of England in 1940” were only given in limited number to senior officials in British intelligence in 1947.
A rare copy has emerged for sale with auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son of Devizes, Wilts. It is set to fetch around £5,000 on Saturday. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: “This is a fascinating account. This is the ‘what if ’ scenario.”