Answers for Steve Nickless
Tom Holloway (xuegx@CSV.WARWICK.AC.UK)
Sat, 29 Nov 1997 21:11:10 +0000
Steve Nickless asked...
>1. If you had run out of food and you had no more ration coupns what did
>you do?
It didn't happen in my family (in London) and I never heard
that it happened to anyone else. Remember that 'rationing'
was meant to make sure that EVERYONE got enough of the important
foods and materials. And we all grew potatoes and cabbages
wherever we could find a spare square yard....
>2. Did you still have milkmen delivering during the war?
>3. How did you get your mail?
Yes. Just like now.
>4. What was your favourite wartime song?
Hitler - has only
Goering - his two are
Himmler - is rather simmler...
But poor old Goeballs has
(Originally I wrote this out in full, but on reflection
have decided to remove line endings. Did I do the right
thing? Teachers of History, unafraid of scatological
verse, may apply to me off-list for the full version).
>5. Do you still see any of your wartime friends?
Yes. I met one of my best friends on the 14th of September
1944. He came to visit me on that same day in 1994 and we
celebrated fifty years of friendship in the local Hotel de
Posh <hic!>.
>7. Were there many unemployed women at the end of the war when munitions
> were not needed in such large quantities?
A good question - but unemployed women weren't very loud in
their complaints in those days, and I never saw it raised as
any sort of issue at the time.
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