Marged wrote :- >Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >was just wishful thinking on my part My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so I literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) Gordon From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] HANCOCK, Thomas's son of Jane PARR >He definitely did mishear me, Eleanor, mainly because he had probably never >heard of Rollo. >No, I didn't get them because they were not freely >available in the shops for a very long time after this (about 1945/6). >Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >was just wishful thinking on my part >Marged > >That's funny! I hope you gave back the rolled oats and got your rollos. >He was probably teasing you or >maybe misheard you. >Have a good night >Eleanor

We were allowed one sweet after our evening meal (and only if we'd eaten everything up!! Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Evans" <gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:39 PM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) > Marged wrote :- > >>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>was just wishful thinking on my part > > My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so I > literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( > > Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) > > Gordon > > From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> > To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:26 AM > Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] HANCOCK, Thomas's son of Jane PARR > >>He definitely did mishear me, Eleanor, mainly because he had probably >>never >>heard of Rollo. >>No, I didn't get them because they were not freely >>available in the shops for a very long time after this (about 1945/6). >>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>was just wishful thinking on my part >>Marged >> >>That's funny! I hope you gave back the rolled oats and got your rollos. >>He was probably teasing you or >>maybe misheard you. >>Have a good night >>Eleanor > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > > ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email