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We didn鈥檛 have much in the way of sweets and fruit, food was rationed. We only had fruit and nuts at Christmas. Bananas were unheard of.

Our mothers had ration breaks and clothes were hand made if the material was available.
My aunts were good at knitting and unpicking old knitwear. My sister and I had dressing gowns made of prickly, tickly army blankets. When dad was on leave from the Army, he made us some wooden toys from scraps of wood.

We had a big street party after the war where we had cakes and jellies, they were made by all the ladies in the street where we lived. We didn鈥檛 have many sweets and we all had good teeth. I also remember the radio with Sir Winston Churchill and granddad always had the news on loud.

The saddest part in my family鈥檚 history was my uncle Bob aged 21 being killed.

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