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According to the internet the average wage in 1945 was about £3.50 a week. I'll bet not many drank gin!
Some really interesting reading there, AOG. The paragraph "Orange Treat" on page 2 brought back some memories. I vaguely remember my mother taking me to a building in Newcastle-under-Lyme in the early to mid '50s to get a bottle of concentrate and, I think, some cod-liver oil. Were we still on rationing then?
I sort of chuckled at the subdued comment "...and many rude remarks were overheard." under the heading "Crowd jeers winking Nazi" also on page 2.
Rationing did not end completely until 1954. The last thing to come off the ration was sugar/sweets.
Interestingly, bread rationing was only introduced after the war, not during it.
was there still something rationed after sweets, Jackdaw?

http://www.history.uk.com/1940s/wwii-rationing-timeline/
Thanks, JD. Perhaps that's the reason that I never developed a "sweet tooth".
Looks like it but if so I don't know what it was.
Meat was the last I think.
Just checked. Meat and bacon were the last to come off the ration.
4 July 1954: Meat and all other food rationing ended in Britain.
so Vera Lynn had to stop singing "Whale Meat Again"?
Anyone else feel a twinge of sadness at the 'King and Empire' line under the DM banner - looks so archaic and even if were still true they wouldn't risk printing it in case it upset readers but people of that era really believed in it.
I remember the orange juice. You could also get free tokens for orange juice delivered by the milkman. This was abolished in about 1957.
I'm wondering if those pages are genuine. They use the same typefaces the paper uses now, and by the look of it it's scaled to tabloid size, though the paper was a broadschhet until the 60s at least.
Don't bring my Mother into it Jno - yes, she was called Vera.

I got a lot of stick for that.

Yours

Lynne
I think Vera Lynne was the first British artist to top the US hit parades, Mamya, long before the Beatles.
Lovely lady too, yes.
jno, the first british artist to reach the top of the billboard hot 100 was acker bilk in 1962. vera lynne's success (in 1952) preceded the hot 100 by 6 years.

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