91Èȱ¬

This story was submitted to the website by Karolina Kopiec from 91Èȱ¬ GMR Action Desk on behalf of Bernice Howarth and has been added to the site with their permission.

I remember going to school for ½ days only early in the 2nd World War. We would have air raid drill and file into the air-raid shelters with our food boxes and gas masks. My father taught pupils shorthand and typing and I remember walking with him to their houses during the black out. We also had to stick brown paper strips on our windows as a precaution against flying glass and we made black curtains decorated with strips of coloured binding .
Food:
We had to preserve eggs in water glass. We had dried egg powder. My mother used to queue on Ashton Market for Horse meat. Many essential foods were rationed, sweets were rationed.
Clothing:
We had to make do and mend. Coats and skirts were lengthened with pieces of different material.

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