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The War Years
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Jac | Report | 15 Feb 2008 18:16 |
I think the trick was to get someone to draw the line on for you - lol |
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~flying doctor~ | Report | 15 Feb 2008 21:37 |
We had parcels sent from America from a family named Howlett. I remember getting some floating soap my sister and I were fascinated with it and believe it or not I still have a tin of dried egg (un opened) which goes to school every year when the kids are doing WW2. Elaine. |
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Sandra | Report | 15 Feb 2008 22:08 |
I've recently bought a book called 'Make Do And Mend'.It contains 'reproductions of official second world war instruction leaflets'. |
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Espana | Report | 15 Feb 2008 22:57 |
I was born towards the end of the war but recall everything being on ration and gradually foods and clothing coming free to buy but not till I was old enough to shop. We lived in a village and apparently we could generally get most foods even meat from our local farmer and the others by sharing. There was the story of the American servicemen that shot the sheep in our farmers field when they were bored due to their train breaking down and being stuck outside our village. Mum said we did all right for lamb for quite some time. |
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MacTheOldGeezer | Report | 15 Feb 2008 23:37 |
If you kept a Pig you were allowed The head, the trotters and tail and you were allowed a leg, the rest went to the Ministry of Food. |
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Jac | Report | 15 Feb 2008 23:42 |
I find this thread fascinating, and really important in regard to our common interests - i.e. the past and what we know of it. |
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MacTheOldGeezer | Report | 16 Feb 2008 00:12 |
From what I have posted this week |
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Jac | Report | 16 Feb 2008 00:18 |
Why not Mac? |
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Susan719813 | Report | 16 Feb 2008 00:21 |
Posting bits and pieces on some of the threads started me off collecting them for future generations Mac....and the war stories are always good to read...so why not? |
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MacTheOldGeezer | Report | 16 Feb 2008 00:24 |
I have written quite a bit for my two Grandchildren to be given to them when they reach an age that it will interest them |
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Mazfromnorf | Report | 16 Feb 2008 02:53 |
I have just read this all through it would be good to record it all every ones stories .my mum can still pass on a few they got a lot of stuff like nylons and chocolate from the americans also .she still undoes ribbon and string wrapping paper carefully .we have become too extravigant.My dad made furniture from old orange boxes and recycled timber for years . |
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YorkshireCaz | Report | 16 Feb 2008 07:31 |
What a fascinating thread, I was born during the war so don't remember it. My mum said they used to stain their legs with gravy browning and draw a line up the back for seams. Her wedding dress was made out of parachute silk, and all the neighbours used to contribute ingredients if a celebraton cake was needed.They grew their own vegetables and used to swap for something the neighbour grew that you didn't. One day the greengrocer in the village had one banana, he hung it in the window and all the mothers took their children to see this marvelous thing called a banana. The string bit still went on with my mum into her seventies, she couldn't bear to throw any away. |
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Taff | Report | 16 Feb 2008 07:51 |
well, my Dr,. has me on a diet for "high cholesteral", I call it the ration book diet....lol |
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Mazfromnorf | Report | 16 Feb 2008 09:47 |
I hope this thread keeps going we could av a street party on line !!!! or off line it would be more like a global party |
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≈`*•Cinders•*´≈ | Report | 16 Feb 2008 09:59 |
what a really interesting thread, thank you to everyone for their memories and stories, i really enjoyed reading them |
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Harry | Report | 16 Feb 2008 10:52 |
Does anyone remember (Lord) Woolton pie? |
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Mazfromnorf | Report | 16 Feb 2008 11:16 |
Aint that old what was the pie made of? My dad was as stubborn as a muel when they ran out of something at a weekend he would not shop until the right day his words were we managed in the war we can manage now.that was basics like milk flour etc |
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Harry | Report | 16 Feb 2008 11:23 |
Woolton pie was woman,s work, not for urchins. he was minister of food during the war and he used to come on the wireless each week giving tips on how saving food could help win the war. |
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Mazfromnorf | Report | 16 Feb 2008 11:36 |
Bit like the tips I passed on to my student daughter at the end of term |
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Krystyna♥ | Report | 16 Feb 2008 12:30 |
Woolton pie |