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15 October 2014
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Liquorice Root

by stoke_on_trentlibs

Contributed by听
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People in story:听
Joan
Location of story:听
Tanfield Lea, Co Durham
Article ID:听
A2350522
Contributed on:听
26 February 2004

This story was submitted to the People's War site by Stoke-on-Trent Libraries on behalf of Joan and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

I was only four when the war ended. I remember being told stories of a bomb being dropped in the fields in Tanfield but that was all we really saw. I lived in a mining village in Durham - it was really quiet.

I remember fetching the rations from 'The Store'. It was the Co-op really but we always called it the store. The Danish butter was delivered in barrels and would be cut up for 2oz per person. You could buy the barrels for about 1/2d and use them for firewood.

I remember when bananas started to come back in the shops. Three of us would sahare one banana for tea. I also remember going with my sweetie coupons, either for 2oz or a quarter of sweets. I'd buy sherbert dabs. One thing we wasn't rationed and we bought a lot of was liquorice root. It makes me feel sick just thinking about eating it now!

Mother used to give us rosehip syrup. She used to get orange juice fromm the Welfare. It tasted nothing like fresh orange or squash. It had a taste all of its own! It was in a kind of square bottle. The 'Welfare' was in the Epworth Methodist Chapel.
Joan--Staffordshire

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