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Post war rationing
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I believe "Rationing" ended in 1954, but what was the last commodity to be rationed in the UK?
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You're not as puzzled as I am, W! Having found the site and heard the newsreel, I haven't the faintest idea why I wrote 'bread'. The only explanation, having actually lived through these days, is that I believed - ie "remembered" in inverted commas - it was bread before I set out to find a supporting website. My apologies, Boris!
I honestly cannot answer this question, however I do remember being a child of six in 1954 and being sent a few doors up to the bakers to buy a loaf of bread and having to take the ration book to get it stamped.
I then used to linger on my way home and nibble all the crusts off the edges of this still warm freshly baked bread - it was heavenly.
I then used to linger on my way home and nibble all the crusts off the edges of this still warm freshly baked bread - it was heavenly.
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Bacon & meat were last to go! And 1954 is the correct year.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/war/rationing.htm for more info
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Moo, I was also born in May '54 but I was under the impression that for a few weeks I did have a ration book (or rather my parents had one on my behalf). I thought it related to our orange juice allowance and possibly the dreaded cod liver oil. I can find no support for this notion however. I believe that there is some recent research suggesting that our good diet at that time contributed to the fact that we were such bright, well-behaved children.. ;-)
My parents employed people in the village to make up baby clothes from second hand adult cloth.
And in hospitals......you collected up the ration tickets in one week and got food on the number of tickets for the next week, and yes if the Hospital was empty one week and full the next, they went short......