PM’S ‘PEACE FOR OUR TIME’

1938

Prime minister Neville Chamberlain (inset) returns from talks with Adolf Hitler in munich, declaring he has secured ‘peace for our time’. A year later the nation is at war.

Months after meeting on a blind date, Eric and nancy get engaged. she is 17 and he is just 16. Eric, who has worked on a farm since leaving home at 11, has supplemented his meagre wages to buy the diamond ring (which nancy still wears) by catching moles.

nancy says: ‘Eric told me he had spotted me at the village fair and wanted to date me.

‘he was so gentle, with lovely manners. I was smitten. he didn’t propose. he simply announced, “We are getting married”.’