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Bloomfield residents remember how people during the war used to hoard any luxury foods they got, and save them for a rainy day - but sometimes the “rainy day” never came!

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This is a joke by Logan Matthews, collected at the Dream Scheme youth club as part of the “Tell Us a Joke” activity in July 2008.  You can listen to Logan telling the joke, and see his drawing of it.

Frank, an ex-Illuminations worker, writes about his experiences of working at the Illuminations from 1992 to 2007.  You can also see a recent leaflet about some of the special events taking place in 2008 as part of the Illuminations.