Tag: wartime
Blitz party
Themed parties are always great fun – but top of the list for vintage lovers who like to dress up in 1940’s style has to be the Blitz Party!
The fabulous Liz & Jeremy asked Vintage Dorset to provide WW2 scene setting and help organise a fun birthday Blitz Party in the vintage hall at West Parley. Liz was expecting around 40 guests and had a fabulous dance host to help everyone get into the swing.
We loved every moment of this one!
Venue styling!
West Parley Memorial Hall is a vintage style “Anderson Shelter” shaped building with a great vibe – the perfect venue for a Blitz party.
We visited late last year to see out how we would set up the party using the existing trestle tables and how we might create a scene where guest could have pictures and get into the mood.
Our style ingredients included:
- Bunting in red white and blue as well as vintage bunting in floral fabrics
- Trestle tables with vintage tablecloths and old fashioned lemonade jugs
- Wartime kitchen and home accessories including an old bakelite radio, kitchen scales and lots of lacy doilies
- An air raid shelter scene with a battered brick wall facade, piles of sandbags a wooden sign pointing to the “Air Raid Shelter” union jack flags (including some genuine flags from the first world war)
- Vintage Trunks and an original fold out WW1 camp bed with bedding rolls and bedside reading of wartime recipe booklets with old spectacles, a cup of tea, an old camera and a vintage communications tuner
Liz is taking an MA in First World War studies through the University of Birmingham so we wanted as many genuine props as we could find from both world wars but also to create a bit of fun fitting for a party.
The costumes were amazing – people really made a great effort and it all looked fabulous:
Blitz Party Food
Now no respectable party would be complete without appropriate food and we were very happy to help source local produce in the Blitz Party theme. The menu comprised:
– Sgt Bun’s glorious rustic bread
-real butter and local cheddar
– pickled eggs and pickled onions from Country Markets, Bridport Markets and Washingpool
– Home-made jams and home-made cakes from the Women’s Institute Country Markets
Blitz Christmas – wartime festival
This Saturday and Sunday the Tank Museum at Bovington is hosting a wartime Christmas Festival and craft fair giving a flavour of how Christmas was celebrated during the two world wars.
The museum has a fabulous 1940’s “home front” house where you can find out how families decorated their homes for Christmas and where you can make your own wartime Christmas decorations to take home
A wartime housewife provides cooking demonstrations and the Land Girls are also telling their own Christmas stories
For children there’s an American G.I Santa in the village hall, with treats (for good boys and girls!)
The museum also includes an exhibition of how soldiers celebrated Christmas in the trenches, and tells the story of the 1914 Truce
If you need to catch up on Christmas shopping then the Indoor Christmas Market has more than 70 traders selling local gifts, festive food, drink and lots more
As most of our vintage crockery is out at weddings this weekend we’re sadly not exhibiting – but Steve and I will be dropping by to check out this fabulous vintage event so if you spot us making our vintage decorations come over and say Hi!
Directions to the Tank Museum HERE