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Rationing in the Second World War. |
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Interviewer: Did the war have much effect on, say, life in the country or did you just go on with your...?
Robert Thompson: Ach well there were shortages of things but you smuggled from across the border. We went off to buy butter or went off to buy sugar or whatever it was. It was more plentiful there than it was here. So being so close to the border here, and being country people, country people it didn't affect them very much for they had a good - Like egg rationing for one example, didn't affect us at all. Meat rationing didn't affect us, bacon rationing didn't affect us, because you kept a pig or two and you killed your own pig. That was being done anyway. We always killed and cured our own pigs. That was, well again it was an economy system. We would never have bought meat in the thirties, meat wouldn't have been bought in our house until after the war. In fact, I suppose the rationing maybe encouraged us to buy it a bit, cause you were inclined to look for what you were entitled to, I suppose.
Ref: 90-04-106.
Interviewer: Sandra Matchett, Fermanagh County Museum.
© Fermanagh County Museum. |
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Robert Thompson |
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90-04-106.mp3
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