It was customary for busloads of people from the North to go to the nearest town “across the...
My mother got hold of a parachute at the end of the war — they sold off a lot of them at...
George was a desert rat and was at Dunkirk... He was posted out to the Middle Est three months after...
Her local sweet shop was Wilsons on the Newtownards Road in Belfast. On Friday night she went down to...
Mine was very good and would give me a 'marrow bone' which I boiled with veg for the babies. One...
Father, who was in the fire service on the docks, found himself longing for a piece of steak. My mother...
His family was allowed 2 eggs a month, and hardly any meat, butter or sugar... When conscription began, his...
They tried and make salt, you know, get brine, we used to go and fetch a ration of brine, and that's my...
The new bride was somewhat "green" about housekeeping and shopping for food and, on one classic...
During the war to save coupons, we bought blankets from Derby Market and a local dressmaker Mrs Attewell,...
My father was the Food Officer for Hadleigh and his Food Office was located in Hadleigh High Street during...
There were sultanas, cheese and a banana....
So my mum went to the chemist and bought some Ex-Lax, which tasted sweet and she'd break them into...
But some evacuesse came to our village and lived in the school... We only got one bar off toffee a week and...
Throwing away food was never even considered so on Saturday nights, food was sold off cheaply as we knew we...
Every friday morning during the war I used to join a que outside Sears the Butchers shop who was notid for...
My mother knitted Dad's socks and we both knitted clothes for our evacuee children and balaclavas and...
We also used to have a regulr visit from a prisoner of war, a German man called Horst Tank. He was very...
My grandparents, especially my grandfather, used to enjoy telling this story to me when I was a child......
When she heard that war had been announced she knew that food might get a bit short. "Well" she...
At first during the raids we slept on a mattress under the dinigng room table but then had an air raid...
I well remember going to the town 10 miles away with my mother joining all the queues. The thrill when we...