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My brother and sister and I would queue up for the two yolks and take it in turns to have the yolks......
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I was living in Clarendon, Jamaica during the Second World War. Food: We couldn't get beef to eat in...
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The food was more or less the same all the time....
In it were the Canadian red apples 鈥 the colour of them is absolutely fantastic. There was also...
There wasn't a lot in the shops, with the rationing; bread was hard to get, but on Wednesdays they had...
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I worked in the Co-op at Leadgate throughout the War... I remember, there was myself, another married woman...
I had to do my share of fire watching and our equipment was a stirrup pump, a bucket of water and a...
I remember we had to share our school with evacuees from London for about three years. I remember queuing...
Sugar Once a Month. I remember that you'd get sugar once a month and if you went through that you'd...
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