Previous letters pages can be found here.

Letters page from Volume 3, issue 23. November 9th – 22nd, 1955.

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LETTER PAGE

Today it is Sunbeam letter-page. I have chosen the letters to show you the varied things the Sunbeams do, but I shall only quote a few lines from each letter. The first one wins my letter prize.

We have been working all the year at making knitting needle cases, covering coat-hangers, painting tins for waste-paper baskets, making dish-cloths, aprons, string bags, tray cloths, egg-cases and many other things. We actually managed to make £38 10s. od.
Heather and Gay Beste, Banstead.

I am 17 1/2 and I started work last week. I send 5s. out of my first wages as a thank-offering for perfect eyesight.
Catherine Wright, Mossley Hill.

We sold our old story books and now send you 10s.
Angela Dyke and Gillian Curtis, Warminster.

My two friends and I made kettle-holders, dish-cloths and felt animals and the money we send is to buy a blind child a Christmas present.
Valerie Beale, Coalville.

Here is one more pound that the 1st Bampton Brownies have saved up in Queen pennies for your Blind Babies.
Tawny Owl, Bampton.

Here is £1 13s. 4d. which my friend and I earned by doing odd jobs for people.
Gillian Burley, Tripoli.

Here is 27s. which we earned by means of a Bring and Buy Sale.
Dawn and Eleanor Dendel, Barnstaple.

Here is some money I made by selling models of plaster. I paint and varnish them and they make lovely ornaments (especially Noddy !)
Trudy Morris, Yeovil.

I send you £1 1s. 41d. which I made by selling flowers from my own garden.
Sandra Dolman, Dorking.
PS – Daddy is making the cheque up to £2.

A slightly different letters page this time. Lots of good fundraising ideas there. Interesting to see a 17 year old writing in – wonder if she still got the magazine herself or if it was a younger sibling?

Not surprising that Heather and Gay won, having raised over £38. An online inflation calculator says that that equals £1,249.45 today!

The Magazine Club Coupon is intact in this issue, and I think this is what was cut out of the previous one. I’m not sure what the coupons were for but it must say somewhere in the magazine.