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Cateaton Street and it's environs 1939-40.

Gouldborn - row of shops. The first one was a highclass green grocery, two bananas. Other shop fronts...

War In Britain by Daniel Tye

Oranges, coffee and many other foreign goods from countries such as the USA, South America and Italy were...

Kathleen Boyle page 3

It was great fun because sugar and tea from sacks had to be bagged up and weighed in thick blue paper bags...

Island Life

Dad was the butcher on the American Base so we always had meat and money for coconut oil to burn in our...

East end of Greenock (Hillend Drive)

Greenock was full of sailors during the war and we gave them bites to eat. Our Uncle Bert was in the...

Selling grapes to the Germans

New mother 1944

So once a mother knew she was pregnant, she was able to obtain extra coupons so that she could purchase...

My little red siren suit

Our family had a transport café on the corner of Broad Road and Westley road in Acocks Green in...

Sarah Maunders story

At one whist drive, the prize was one onion and everyone wanted to win it... One of Mrs Maunders keenest...

Boarding School for Disabled Children

There were 30 people with disabilities, many of whom were in wheelchairs and we were all transferred from...

My little red siren suit

Our family had a transport café on the corner of Broad Road and Westley road in Acocks Green in...

Questionaire Mary by Helen Young

Questionnaire Gran — Mary Webster — born 1929. Yes, I had a friend who was evacuated —...

The Introduction of Coupons

There was a Ministry of Food which issued ration books to everyone and saw to the fair distribution of what...

Wot No Whatever

Or a ha'porth of fades, squishy pears, Plums squirting rich red juice, bruised apples... Then...

All About Rationing By Emma Harrison

Malt Extracts-cod liver oil- you used to drink it in the morning for a better stamina, Taty Ash- potato and...

Oranges, Ration books and Polish Sailors

This meant that rationing didn't hit them too hard as they could have a large tin of fruit every...

The War in Scotland

It was very cold and I remember her going down to the coal yard where the office was in a caravan to...

M J Tulip nee Nichols V: More food for some?

M J Tulip nee Nichols V: More food for some. The effect often seemed much worse in the towns. If there were...

Mrs Margaret Byrnes

Margaret Byrnes was six when war was declared as she was playing in the garden and the doors along street...

Coping with Rationing.

If you wanted to make say, a wedding cake, you had to go round and collect coupons from anyone who...

GUCCI WAS NEVER LIKE THIS

Gasmasks were supplied in dull brown cardboard boxes and it was quite difficult to distinguish one from...

Life in the Land Army.

I was working in Fens Hackenby in the Land Army picking potatoes, sugar beet and harvesting the corn.When...

Dig for victory

Dad was all for finding ways of supplementing our poor ration diet and took on an allotment that had just...

Life in the Land Army.

I was working in Fens Hackenby in the Land Army picking potatoes, sugar beet and harvesting the corn.When...

A Wartime Feast

So, all the neighbours helped by saving their spare foods bits and we gathered it all and fed the pig......

Freddie Griswood's Wartime Wedding Cake

This recipe was used to make the wedding cake to celebrate the marriage of Mary and Kenneth Martin in...