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Our customers came from the village of Verwood and our delivery vans visited the villages of Three Legged...
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It was all rations - 2oz cheese, 2oz butter, 2oz margerine, 2oz lard for every person. I had evacuees, a...
Fish like red herrings, bloaters, gernits - they had a lot of bones in them, then there was offal - sheeps...
Here is an example of a typical week's ration: 2oz tea, 8oz sugar, 4oz jam, 2oz lard, 2oz butter, 2oz...
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