- Contributed by听
- Age Concern Salford
- People in story:听
- Alma, Roy and Lynn Martin
- Location of story:听
- Salford
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4781973
- Contributed on:听
- 04 August 2005
My mother told me about numerous occasions when the air raid sirens went off in the middle of the night and her mother ushered her and her sister and brother into the air raid shelter. Once awake and alert to what was going on, the children became hungry and asked for their breakfast. Their mother told them that, because of rationing, they only had a certain amount of food to last for the day. They all agreed that they would eat then and not bother with breakfast when they got up in the morning.
They ate and once the all clear siren went, they all went back upstairs to bed. In the morning when they got up, the children asked for their breakfast. Of course, their mother tried to explain that they had eaten it and there was nothing left.
No matter how many times this happened, the children still asked for their breakfast in the middle of the night, and due to the continuation of rationing there was still no food to be had, and on the occasions that they insisted on eating in the night, they had to go to school hungry.
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