All of us together in the street, tables lined up from the top of the street to the bottom, They were...
I was 6 years old at the time and had come home from school for lunch, main course finished next came...
We only got about 2 oz of butter per week and cheese too and only 2 eggs... I couldn't buy clothes,...
There was never enough sugar, so thank goodness for saccharin which was used to sweeten tea and any other...
This Ration Book is housed in the special collection; the Kevin Morrison Collection, Glasgow Caledonian...
Was food rationed in India... Food,paraffin oil and cloth and so many other things like metal.Metal was...
My father, a widower was speaking to our next door neighbour's wife, a Highland Lady just after a...
I was sent next door to borrow a cup of sugar....
CHRISTMAS DAY 1944. We went for Christmas dinner at my Aunt and Uncle at Lenton House in St. Jacques....
I never had any chocolate or bananas... The Yanks used to shout "Hello babe, do you want some chewing...
Dried Fruit for Richard and Black-out Curtains, as told by his mother Lois Nicholl nee Nutton. When Richard...
We had two big vases on the fireplace....
My Dad was born in 1938 in Hulme in Manchester... When she got home she left them on the sideboard, my Dad...
There were no lights and you had to carry a torch with you.People had special curtains to put offer your...
Mending Leaks in Kettles and Pans. What my father used to do when we had a leak in the kettle or saucepan...
One thing that hit youngsters of my age was sweet rationing, our Saturday penny being able to purchase a...
Then we'd turn it out, add salt and pepper and use it like a cheese spread, it was surprisingly good....
But it was a actually parsnips, it was mashed parsnip with a banana flavouring and you could have sworn you...
My lasting Memory of World War II is………during and after 1939 — 1945 there was a...
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