Author: Sal
String Shortage On The Wight
Monday, 24th March, 2008 at 11:22 am, Isle of Wight
Our good friends over at News Biscuit have alerted us to celebrations taking place today to commemorate the 1958 great string shortage.
As a finale to the Easter celebrations, residents of the Isle of Wight are putting finishing touches to preparations for the 50th anniversary of the great string shortage of 1958, when supplies of string almost ran out, leaving local traders in danger of having no means of securing their brown paper parcels.
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March 24th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Ah yes,I remember it well. Kites were grounded, tramps’trousers kept falling down,and the country was starting to fall apart. I must confess that my family made the situation much worse by “string hoarding”. Every drawer in our kitchen was full of short lenghts of precious string, all neatly wound into balls. I was sent to Scouts just to learn how to knot them all together.
I also recall the learned sayings of Spike Milligan: “String, string, is a wonderfull thing. Rope is thicker, but string is quicker” How profound is that?