Remember when...

[Erato]

A bit short on the fruit and veg.

[eadaoin]

Thank goodness, we still have milk delivered - 6 x500ml twice a week.

And our knickers were GREY!

[eadaoin]

We lived ~ seven miles from the centre of Dublin.
Every Wednesday about 8.30am, 5 cows (probably bullocks?) were hunted down the road near us, on their way to the local butcher. I was terrified to go to school on Wednesdays!

[Treetotal]

Did yours have a pocket? Heaven help you if the elastic snapped in one of the legs 

Carol

[Treetotal]

A bit short on the fruit and veg.

They were the foods that were rationed Erato, fruit and veg weren't rationed but they were in short supply during WW2. People were encouraged to grow their own where possible.

Carol

[Gadget]

My father and most of the people in the small village had allotments as well as their gardens to grow vegetables and fruit.

Somewhere there are photos of Dad and my big sister on their way from the allotments 

[Familysearch]

I never had the navy blue knickers!  My school uniform was green to the age of 11, then at the grammar school it was brown.

Rationing went on for years after war ended.  I think probably 1951 or 1952?

FS

[youngtug]

1954

[Gadget]

Wasn't it sugar?