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During the War you could not buy fresh eggs from shops, only dried packaged eggs. On one school holiday my Mum had heard on the grapevine (no one telephones or mobile phone those days!) that at the West End Meat Market (now the Arcade) they were selling fresh eggs at the shop opposite the Carlton Cinema on Chapel Bar. I said I would go to purchase some of these eggs and as we lived on Gordon Road I had to catch a bus into Town.

Leaving home at 10am I arrived at the shop to find the entrance and the Meat Market packed solid with people. When I enquired I was told to get to the back of the queue, retracing my steps, I went up Market Street to find the end of the queue was opposite the Theatre Royal. Four to five people deep, it went along Parliament Street and through the Meat Market.

FIVE HOURS LATER I arrived at the front of the queue to be told that everyone was only allowed a dozen eggs each. Clutching my precious eggs I got home at 4pm. That evening we all sat down to egg and chips. What luxury! My brother asked why he had one egg whilst I had two? My Mum said that if you鈥檇 have been out for 6 hours getting the eggs you would have got two as well!

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