Going ShoppingGoing Shopping
Buildings demolished
to make way for
the new road.
The old road
Shops and
supermarkets
Iris Evans
Credit : Tom Fields
… and now
Money then…
Foster’s
Bakery
Iris Evans
Rita Jacobs
Daily bread
Jeremy Moody
The Butcher
Les Hayter
June Hanford
The Grocer
Jan Truckle
Playing shops
The Sweet Shop
Margery BodgerMichael
Winterman
Fruit and vegetables
Where does your food come from today?
Jeremy Moody Michael WInterman
Deliveries
Bert delivering bread with his handcart
Then …
… and now.
Barbara Blandford Rita Jacob
Sounds…
…and smells
Ken Edwards
Margery Bodger
June Handford
Michael
WInterman
Jan Truckle
Other businesses
Market day
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Margery Bodger
The cow in
Foster’s Bakery
Michael WInterman
A chance to gossip
Children often
went shopping
on their own
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In the War food
was rationed
One Week’s Food Ration
3 pints of milk
3 1/4Ib - 1Ib meat
1 egg per week or
1 packet of dried eggs
every month
3-4 oz cheese
4 oz bacon and ham
2 oz tea
8 oz sugar
2 oz butter
2 oz cooking fat
+ 16 points a month for other
rationed foods (usually tinned)
subject to availability.
Feeding the family
In the War
Finding out
about the
past.
