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I was nine years old when the war started. I left school in 1944 when I was fourteen.I started work at the "co-op" on August 14th 1944 as an errand boy. We had to slice up butter etc. into rations. 1 egg a week in the rations book. There were tins of dried egg. Rations went up and down. You`d have coupons for tea and clothing. The girls couldn`t get enough clothing coupons. I worked for the "co-op" for 47 years. I worked my way up the chain to manager. With the rationing you`d be lucky to get 1 slice of bacon a week, if the butcher got some rabbit they`d be very buisy. I had to use saw dust to mop up the blood from the raw meat in the butchers section.
If you were on army pay you would recieve very little.
Everything you got was a "hand me down". My Dad was in the home guard, he wuold work all day even when he was FIFTY YEARS OLD. My Dad would make a wooden frame with thick brown paper painted black to stop the light escaping.
At the time only Doctors and other important people could drive a car.

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