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I lived in Muswell Hill and I worked grocery and provision shop before the war. So when they took then men I continued on. I was fifteen when the war started. I didn鈥檛 work in the shop I carried on working through the war and after, for fourteen years in total until I was sixteen. We use to pack the two ounces of butter with the lard and four ounces of margarine and four ounces of bacon and four ounces of sugar. We just got use it. It was one of those things. We use to cut the coupons out and my manager and his wife would count them up at the weekend so they could get that amount of supplies again. It was just one of those things it was the right thing to do. The only time I felt very guilty about those rations was when you got the men come in, it seemed such a small amount to give a man for a week! It was a good life really because everybody was trying to help one another. You go the factory workers coming in and there were other things to buy, like what tinned stuff they could get. A lot of the families had allotments so that subsided for the vegetables and that. I don鈥檛 know how my mother managed to cook the meals she did. But in those days I think people were very basic cookers and I think we were all better for it. I liked it and I was there right till after the war when I met my husband in 53/54 and then I got married. I didn鈥檛 work then because I had my daughter in the first year of my marriage. We settled down to a good life. After my daughter older I worked in my husband鈥檚 business.

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