Rationing

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"I was the junior at Lipton's so I used to bank the money. As a junior I was never allowed to go to the Senior Teller. I was only allowed to go to the Junior Clerk. In those days, there were no women working in the bank it was all men.”


“And then came rationing. Each person had a ration book, some were buff and some were green. You had to cut the coupons out they were little tiny things. I had to sit with a needle and thread and sew all these coupons onto a thread. When I reached a hundred, I would thread a piece of paper in-between so that the coupons were easy to count. Then I had to take them to the Food Office in Church Road. You had to fill in forms saying which shop you were and how many coupons you had taken and according to this information you were allocated your rations for the following month. Each customer had to register with you and get their rations from you.”

Remembered by Margaret Robins

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