“I am not young enough to know everything”

Welcome to askgrandad.com!

Well - Grandads are not young anymore – and they don’t know everything – but they do know a lot!

Two generations ago when our grandads were children their life was very different from yours today! Imagine – not just a life without X Boxes and computers and mobile phones! But a life without Television! A life without supermarkets and for nearly everyone a life without motor cars or aero plane flights or central heating!

Many grandads were born and were young children either just before, during or just after the last world war! Many were soldiers, airman or sailors and fought in that war – many died and are therefore not alive today to talk to or help their grandchildren.

Sadly, for lots of reasons, there are many children without grandads to talk to.

Even if you are lucky enough to have two grandads who have many interesting stories to tell you and much amazing knowledge to share with you; they can’t know as much as thousands of grandads!

Our Grandads

Our Grandads come from all walks of life. Some were born into rich families with servants and some into poor families. Some into aristocratic families (we might even have a Royal one!). They have in their time done a bewildering number of different jobs. Some were Doctors and some Miners. Some were in the armed forces and some were engineers. We have Jockeys, Cabbies, Bankers, Teachers, Policemen, Astrophysicists, Farmers, Lawyers and Nuclear scientists. The list is endless – and the combined knowledge and experience enormous! It will be interesting to find the most unusual job done by our grandads. Could there be one more unusual than – A SAGGAR MAKERS BOTTOM KNOCKER?

When some of our grandads were young children they ate ‘sugar sandwiches’ or ‘dripping on toast’ for tea! If they were lucky! And then just a few years later as twenty something young men flew Spitfires or fought in muddy trenches in France or at sea in submarines!

Grandads have many incredible stories to tell you and they can answer many of your questions in ways that their children, your parents, often can’t! But you have much knowledge that they don’t have and we can learn a lot from you too!

About askgrandad.com

There are millions of web sites – and more are created every day. Nearly all are aimed at and are for the benefit of the people between you and us! Our children - your parents! Askgrandad.com is aimed at and is for the benefit of the two groups of people either side of our children - your parents! In other words – your parents dads and your parents children – You and us!

So Grandchildren everywhere, pick our Grandads brains! Ask them about life when they were young, you will be amazed by the stories they can tell you. (And don’t forget – they can tell you the sort of things your parents used to get up to when they were young – (mostly exactly the same sort of things they tell you off for doing!)

And Grandads everywhere, tell us what you did as a child, what your school days were like. Tell us what you did in the war, tell us what job you did and tell us to about your life generally, your own Grandchildren and what your hobbies are. Answer our Grandchildren’s questions and help them to understand a world far different from their own – even though it was only two generations ago.