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This is about my Grandad's recollections of world war 2. He was eleven when the war began, and lived in a village outside Manchester.

The first thing he remembers about the war affecting him are rationing. His family was allowed 2 eggs a month, and hardly any meat, butter or sugar. It became a struggle for his mother to feed them all because food was so limited.
Cars almost completely disappeared from the roads, because petrol was restricted to essential things and most people cycled instead.
When conscription began, his friends joined up to fight in the war, and at the end of the war, Grandad was only just too young to fight. During the war his father escaped coscription because

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