From a brick of wartime cake to a honeymoon derailed by bombing, two remarkable archive documents preserve the humour, heartache and everyday ingenuity of people who lived through the First and Second World Wars around Staithes and East Cleveland. “I remember hitting it on a wooden topped dresser with my fists and you couldn't tell the difference in sound.” The offending object was a cake. Or, at least, it was supposed to be one. Flour was rationed, the ingredients were preci