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The People's Friend ?

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Jane10 Sun 13-Jan-19 22:24:10

I was lucky enough to be invited to the People's Friend 150th anniversary party last week. It was great. Everyone was so friendly. The staff are exactly as nice as you'd hope they would be. It seems like a happy family with many members of staff having worked there for years and years. Among many others I met the knitting pattern checker and the lady who cuts the dodgy bits out of my stories!

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Luckygirl Sun 13-Jan-19 22:10:53

Ah - memories of my grandmother.

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Gonegirl Sun 13-Jan-19 22:09:54

My aunt took several women's mags and passed them on to me. The People's Friend was the only one I couldn't bring myself to read.

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Marydoll Sun 13-Jan-19 21:58:56

I didn't realise it was that old!
My mother bought it every week and passed it on to me.
I especially liked trying out the recipies. I still have recipies which I cut out from it many moons ago.

Of course one of our very own Gransnetters has had her work published in it. ?☺️

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Cherrytree59 Sun 13-Jan-19 21:18:19

The People's Friend magazine is 150 years old.
When it was first published in Dundee on 13th January 1869, it vowed it would contain nothing with 'slightest tendency to corrupt the morals of either young or old'smile

A firm favourite in our family, read by both my grandmothers, great-aunts, aunts and my mum.

My grandfather who was an amateur Artist often admired the scenery on the front covers.

My paternal grandmother always gave me The Peoples Friend fire side book every year for Christmas.

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