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This story appears courtesy of and with thanks to The Liverpool Diocesan Care and Repair Association and James Taylor.

We were only allowed one egg a fortnight on each book. We’d get them altogether. We only had about four ounces of meat a week and you had to get all at once to make a decent meal out of it.
The rations were pretty tight, you had to queue up for them as well, big eggs were very scarce. If there were tomatoes or bananas around, they were big queues at the shop and people would be dashing round, trying to get a quarter of tomatoes or a few oranges. We spent a long time queuing outside shops.
For clothes, I knitted for the children. I only had two at the start. The last one was born during the war, but when things were easier. But clothing coupons were very scarce. I had to wait until the war was over before I could get myself a new pair of corsets! And we went without stockings.
The young girls who went out covered their legs in gravy browning, I imagine, to look smart. I never went out, with having kids; I couldn’t dance anyway because my parents had never let me.
There wasn’t very much to do apart from that.

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