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This is an edited extract of a recorded interview conducted by Adrian Green of Bromley Museum with Janet Ambrose. It has been submitted to the People’s War website with her permission.

‘I can well remember rationing; we used to get a slice of meat roast on Sunday, another slice cold with salad on Monday, anything cold minced on Tuesday and a stew on Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday I suppose it was sausages one day and fish the next and sometimes she (mother) used to rustle a bit of steak and kidney ‘pud’ now and again, she did wonderful things.

Whenever you went on a railway station as a little kid, they had these chocolate machines and the bars of chocolate were still there illustrated and you know, you couldn’t put the pennies in because there was no chocolate there. I think it would have been much kinder to the kids if they had taken those chocolate machines away.'

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