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The Trouble with Rationing

My father Albert Ashton was a coal merchant at Aspull, Wigan - and with coal rationing in place me dad was...

Dog food by Jean Siney (nee Rigden)

A solution was found, horse meat could be sold for dog food, but it had to be dyed green to show that...

Share and share alike

My aunty worked in the Drome at Filton... A couple of hours later there was a knock on my grandmothers door...

Food and Rationing

'Woulton Pie' was named after Lord Woulton. He gave me the 1/2lb of potatoes and it made a meal for...

'Make Do and Mend': A Schoolboy's Experience

During the Second World War, my father was a little boy growing up in East Yorkshire in the city of Hull....

The Day War Broke Out

I can remember the bombing of the fields around Jenks' farm at Northwood. Everyone thought they were...

Meeniyan Stores, Gippsland, Australia

Towards the end of WW2 and the War in the Far East was dying down my late Mother's Cousins in Australia...

A Present from America

Inside was bacon, dried eggs, spam, biscuits and chocolate. We thought they were after Meir aerodrome or...

A Childhood Saturday in March!

I always queued for a long time and I had to ask the man, who weighed the coke to help the bag...

War-Time Food and Rationing

Janet and Doreen's memories - Dried eggs were very nice, especially if mixed with water and fried in a...

Memories of War Rationing and the Military Situation on the Isle of Man, from 1939

The Jurby airport was used to train bomber command crew, that's pilots navigators and gunnery... Planes...

A Roving Potter

During one raid one night, I took shelter with my mum and brother under Silvertown Bridge. Councilmen came...

Billy Gibbs the Cat Ate Our Dinner by "Joy"

She had found Billy Gibbs making a rapid exit through the open window with a large piece of liver hanging...

Experiences in Cape Town During World War II

However, it was romantically exciting, when the troop ship docked in Cape Town to fill up with fresh...

Unexpected Arrival

A lady who worked at the Bristol Aircraft Company at Filton came to live with us. With all the shortages,...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (Rationing)

Each autumn my brother and I were sent 鈥渢o the country鈥�, by train, with a basket each, to buy...

Lizzie and the doughnuts!!

On the day of the 'AT HOME'in the hotel the final event for the visitors was to be taken up to the...

The Burcot Bomb

We went outside to see hundreds of incendiary bombs lighting up the countryside all the men in our lane...

Welcome Home

I went to fetch groceries including eggs One day as I walked down Penkhull bank to Wharf Street I saw two...

Keeping the People Fed (A Grocers story)

Cheeses came whole with a Linen Rind which had to be stripped off, a horrible job. Our shop was in Filton,...

Rationing

I once queued for a long time and came away with half a pound of unripe gooseberries which my mother did...

A Bunch of Bananas

Amid the excitement of Raymond's homecoming my mam took the bananas and hung them in the window to...

Nuneaton School Teacher

I was an infant school teacher in Nuneaton, in charge of a class of five-year-olds. The children, in an...

Leamington schooldays

I remember the bombs dropping onto Coventry, thinking that they sounded like fireworks... The billeting...

Shortages and bombings

We went outside to see hundreds of incendiary bombs lighting up the countryside all the men in our lane...

Chicken for Christmas!

Chicken for Christmas. A chicken dinner is unremarkable now but, during WW2, chicken was a luxury food....