Pre 1900 Tam's

[Pleater]

Seems like the time I was in the UK 1938 to 1947 and again 1949 to 1953 every thing was in short supply. I think rationing finally ended around that time

Things came off the ration bit by bit.
When I was born in 1951 I had my own ration book but my mother was glad that I liked liver, which was easier to get hold of and cheaper - some people don't realise that things still had to be paid for even if someone had enough stamps to get it.

Anne the Pleater

[stickman]

Got my dates wrong in my last reply1953 should have been 1957. I also like liver and cook it the way my mother did. I remember cooking it once and my stepdaughter said ugh liver. I told her to try one bite, she did. Then she ate a whole piece. She then asked me to cook it again. When I was four or five I was at a doctors office he was working on my right arm. I was busy petting his bulldog so I was not bothered what he was doing to my arm. When he got done he said I was such a good boy that he gave me a square of chocolate. The first I had ever had. Kept it in my mouth long after it melted. It was so good I didn’t want to swallow it. As kids we used to say I’d buy some sweets if I had some money, if I had some coupons, if there was some sweets. It was a hard time but it made us tough.