大象传媒

This story was submitted to the People's War site by Maddy Bridge from Swavesey Village College on behalf of Joan Bridge.

We never had fridges in the war, and if we wanted to keep our butter from melting we had to put some cold water in a bucket and then put a large plate over the top with the butter resting on top. My mother would then buy muslin cloth to cover it.

My grandmother was doing out our food safe one Monday morning, which is like a bird cage (but, at the front over the door is some mesh to keep the flies out), when an American air-force man was coming in to have a drink in my mother and father's bar when he went past my grandma cleaning out the food cupboard. He said "Are ya cleaning out the bird cage ma?!" She was most annoyed as she had never been called 'ma' so casually by a stranger, but we have always laughed about it.

It was very hard indeed to keep food from melting or going mouldy, but everything is very much different now.

漏 Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. Find out how you can use this.