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Marjorie and Beryl - on the right of the picture - outside 25 Mellor Street, c1954. It was in July of this year that food rationing was at long last brought to an end. Ration Books had been issued sometime towards the end of 1939, and in preparation for the rationing, mother remembers the shelves of our corner shop being quickly emptied of tinned soups, baked beans, potatoes, carrots, corned beef, spaghetti and sausages etc. Sweets were also rationed of course, and even though my 'Friday' threepence might be burning a hole in my pocket, I wouldn't be able to run to the shop to buy two ounces of aniseed balls or a gobstopper etc, unless we had enough coupons left in our ration book. |