- Contributed by听
- Genevieve
- People in story:听
- Lilian Marsh
- Location of story:听
- Oakengates, Shropshire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4486421
- Contributed on:听
- 19 July 2005
It was ordinary village life, as far as I was concerned during the war- but things were very hard to get with the rationing. I know one shop-keeper here at Oakengates: a fruitier who also sold fresh fish and that. If she had a commodity in that was scarce, you鈥檇 got to buy something else that wasn鈥檛 scarce too.
Bananas were very, very rare; you鈥檇 have to buy, say, a tin of custard powder to be able to get your bananas.
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