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The vicar's wife, Mrs N Jennings, encouraged us to collect girls’ black woollen stockings, either...
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On the right hand side you had dairy food items like, margarine, bacon, eggs, cheese and on the left there...
Sometimes we'd get food parcels sent from relatives living in America. I had an uncle who was on one of...
I had my own grocery business and I supplied groceries to the boats which came into Belfast docks. The shop...
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You were allowed 15 or 18 coupons. You needed 7 coupons for a pair of shoes, 15 for a coat....
We moved to Straid near Ballyclare for a couple of months after the Easter Tuesday blitz on Belfast. I went...
Remembering Christmas in wartime brings the smell of muscatel raisins. They were packed tightly around our...
A few of my clearest memories of the war were being in the canteen at Victoria Station in Manchester, when...
I was 10 years old when the war was declared, it was very scary at first, because we lived seven miles from...
Clothing coupons were more important then the price for household linen, bedding and underwear as well as...
Things remembered by Alice Tannahill about the II World War hardships. We would drive to Magilligan Point...
Our Christmas decorations got so tatty, little artificial Christmas trees which had hardly any green left...
This is an edited extract of a recorded interview conducted by Museum of Oxford with Mrs Sheila McCluskey....
To make mock apricot tarts you will need: 1 lb young carrots, A few drops almond essence, 4 round...
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