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Women’s Weekly​

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Remember sitting with your Nan or Mum, flipping through Women’s Weekly together? It had everything—stories of inspiring women, delicious recipes, even the Mandrake comic tucked in there. Do those pages bring back memories for you? Share with us here!

 

[Mikev]

I didn’t read them myself but my mother did. I still have some of her magazines from the 1960s and 70s. They are fun to look through now at the fashion the recipes and the adverts.

 

[gamiry]

I still have my blue, hard covered cook book which is about 70 years old. I don't cook much these days but I still have my book. From memory I think it was my Mother who gave it to me and she earned her wings in 1978

 

[Bezz]

I use to buy the magazine in the 70’s, there was always plenty of good reading, recipes etc - not like now it is full of advertisements. I still have and use my Women’s Weekly cookbook.

 

[gamiry]

I use to buy the magazine in the 70’s, there was always plenty of good reading, recipes etc - not like now it is full of advertisements. I still have and use my Women’s Weekly cookbook.

I totally agree with you about mags and ads. I'm sick of seeing cooking, "beauty", health and same stories. To me, they are now a waste of money. WW and New Idea were always the pick of the bunch which my Mum and I bought. Sadly, today they aren't worth buying.

 

[David love]

The Women's Weekly is and always has been a totally boring magazine. And yes my mother actually liked it

 

[glennkidd]

It's not a weekly anymore
Why isn't it called " Womens' Monthly" ?
It's what it is.

 

[Isis]

Loved it as a young married it was a font of knowledge. Then many years later I was lucky enough to have some short stories accepted. Extra money was very handy.

 

[Grannan]

Living in the UK, my mum always had the English WW.
In 1966 I was getting married and looking for a pattern for my wedding dress. I knew exactly what I wanted but couldn't find a pattern.
One morning, after receiving her copy, my mum yelled 'Penny, I've found your dress!!! There, in the magazine, was the pattern of my dream dress. A friend of my husband ro be made it as our present and I proudly wore it on the day.

 

[MIZMAC]

My husband was a young single man when he was left with a house block of land after his parents had died. He used house plans in WOMENS WEEKLY to help him design a home for himself.
Later it was our first home when we married. We sold it when we decided to leave the town.
It was a compact 2 bedroom home.