This dolly used to disappear every Christmas and Birthday and appeared on the day which suited... I had an...
Annie used to keep paper bags folded to be used again... Everything was divided into paper bags. Sugar was...
She hurriedd off and managed to get an empty one pint beer bottle- I think it was a brown al bottle- and...
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One day I went to get the shopping and at the same time a posh lady was there too... I asked the...
One day she decided to buy some whale meat for dinner... She informed her mother of this who then decided...
In 1940 when my baby John was one year old we had a close shave with a German airplane. I was very...
She remembers soaking draughtsman paper – refilling the bucket lots of times – until a very...
They came in D's and E's and E was twice the value of D. Each month there was an announcenent of...
My sister, Pauline, and I were evacuted to Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1943... I remember searching dustbins...
One day a lady called Mrs barrows joined a queue in Burslem near to Nile Street - turned out to be the...
We had little food and only a jug and basin with cold water to wash in... I made trousers for the boys...
My earlist recollection of minor wartime events as I was involved in was watching troops which I believed...
Food was rationed in those days so the sight of apple pie and custard was as much as a small boy could...
Staffs County Council libraries, on behalf of the author, have submitted this story. My mother used it to...
During the food shortages in the Second World War, my Father decided to buy some hens, hoping the eggs they...
Before the war my mother baked fairy cakes, sponge, chocolate éclairs and currant cakes. My mother...
Tobacco was in very short supply and so dad grew his own, which he matured in dried milk tins in the airing...
Chitterlings Hodge Udder Tripe of course wa often on the menu. Savoury duck was a huge favourite - it was...
In this sack he would have tinned peaches, pears, and pineapples. We just wanted sweet things like tinned...
When we were a bit short our Gran used to take a bundle to the pawn shop to get money for food......
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