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Single women who had not worked outside the home were employed on munitions at Marshall鈥檚 of Gainsborough and other places and replaced men in many other sphere of work or joined the forces, all as part of the war effort.

Every home in the village had a garden and grew many crops and varieties of fruit and vegetables. Many of the fruits and vegetables were made into jams, jellies and wines etc and also bottled for use later in the year. The Women鈥檚鈥� Institute had a canning machine and canned apples, pears, tomatoes, etc for use during the winter months.

Some families were lucky enough to have pigs which were usually killed near Christmas time. The hams and sides of bacon were salted to cure and preserve them. The fresh meat was used for sausages and pork pies, the liver and offal used for frying and the lungs were cooked and used to put the 鈥渕eat鈥� into the mincemeat. No fresh port or rabbit was eaten when there was no R in the month i.e. from 1st May to 31st August.

We had Wings for Victory and Salute the Soldier weeks when everyone put money into National Savings Certificates to help the war effort.

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