I remember being about 9 years of age and I didn't like the gas masks.Although there were air-raid...
You could gather food for them from the hedgerows, like Sheep's Parsley and any stale bread you'd...
I went on the bus with my mum one day to go to the local farm for a piglet. On the way...
It was the social life of the town, harvest time. Now it's done anonymously by a combine harvester and...
My father was a Superintendent of a Poor Law Establishment in Tiverton Devon during the war. Due to the...
She gathered up what food she could find, including some precious custard powder and some prunes and she...
I remember when fruit ,ornnges were wrapped in tissue paper. Mother used to send us over the Browns green...
Her mother was a good streamstress and regularly made knickers from parachute material. In 1943 she wore a...
She'd buy a quarter of best and a quarter of the cheapest and mix them together. Her other trick was to...
I remember my Aunts standing on the buffets beside the fireplace after they had put colouring on their legs...
Slowly, he untied the string, and carefully removed the brown paper to reveal a large bunch of bananas....
Doris remembers having to go to Mrs Dale's cake shop and choose one cake with her ration book... Doris...
One of the main confectioners in the area supplied a two tier wedding cake with icing and decorations......
I remember seeing two notices in the local fishmongers during the war .. "When my slab is cold and...
When Italy declared war, my grandmother had in her pantry a tin of Italian plum tomatoes. Throughout the...
Just at the end of the war the first bananas arrived in Aylesbury. My friend's mum had waited for hours...
In 1944, as a 7year old at our local infants' school I was sent to colledt the registers from the other...
I went in a pushchair to next village to butchers with a cardboard box in the pushchair with 2 chickens in...
The Ministry would give us the extra sugar for the bees and in return we would give them some of our honey....
At one stage we had no cups left and were unable to get any so had to drink out of glass jam...
The ‘Vega’ arriving just after Christmas 1944 because we were really on our beam ends RUTH...
There was powdered egg, Klim, which was powdered milk, some had chocolate, big flat breakfast biscuits,...
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