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Rationing

We used to queue up at Woolworths and you'd get the peanut butter ration in a greaseproof bag. When we...

G.S. Jobson Grocery

I can remember working late at night around 1945 helping my parents in the grocery shop weighing up sugar...

Gardening, Rationing, War Work and Enterainment.

GARDENING: Shortly after war started my brother built a greenhouse to grow tomatoes. I was still at school...

One for the tin: eking out the sugar ration

Sugar was rationed for the general public, but there were dispensations in certain circumstances, for...

My World War II memories of Hay Mills

This story was contributed by Solihull Heritage & Local Studies Service, Solihull Libraries by kind...

Practising the Art of Smuggling

You couldn't get tights in Northern Ireland for love-nor-money so when we went to Ireland on the annual...

Rationing by Daniel Tye

Rationing was a main change in British Life as many people were used to a good quantity of food on their...

Food shortages during the German Occupation of Guernsey

All the greenhouses were utilised for growing food, it was a marvellous organisation really, they were...

Gardening, Rationing, War Work and Enterainment.

GARDENING: Shortly after war started my brother built a greenhouse to grow tomatoes. I was still at school...

Wartime Recipe Secret

To fill the pastry I mashed potatoes and mixed it with spam and onions... The meal was served with mash and...

Bananas after the War

Co-Op

Three shops in a row, the Dairy first, Then Groceries, the Butcher to the right, And even Groceries divided...

Salvage

Clean washed jam jars at a ha'porth each, Saving bottle tops and empty cans, Flattened cardboard boxes...

New Clothes

Cattle were sent live to England so they had meat and leather which meant we missed out... Boys would buy a...

Knit for Victory!

In the Senior Girls Elementary School which I attended in Portsmouth, we received enormous parcels of...

A much healthier option

I think that in some respects we as children might have been helped by rationing as all of the junk-food...

My War Time Banana

In 1943, fruit especially oranges and bananas were in very short supply. There were often photos in the...

Egg and Milk

When we got to the counter, my Mum was given a tin of Oster Milk and a waxed-over packet of dried egg...

BRITISH RESTAURANTS

When we went to Hoylake we arrived at about 11.45 a.m in plenty of time for our cheap lunch at the British...

The Snood Lady

I wanted to be 'fashionable' and my friends were wearing the popular 'snood' - even Vera...

47 years in the "co-op"

I left school in 1944 when I was fourteen.I started work at the "co-op" on August 14th 1944 as an...

Food

Me and my sister did the points in the books. We counted the points and took them to the food office at...

Lease-lend Lard

The Ministry of Food allocated a quota of foodstuffs including lard and sugar to the food industry... They...

Barrels of Powdered Milk

I remember barrels and barrels of powdered milk brought in to feed the children. I remember the tattoos on...

The War Years

My husband was stationed at Durham, I can still remember his number Private Purvis 4461073 Durham Light...

Molly Coddle

I had a butcher and one day he said 鈥淗ey Ada, would you like to come back and have a molly coddle...