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Lane Crawford-The Grocer-advert-1949

Lane Crawford-The Grocer-advert-1949
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Lane Crawford food parcels

It's forgotten these days that after WW2 the UK had food rationing in various forms until the early 1950s. Food parcels sent from the USA and Canada are well known, but from the far distant colony of Hong Kong!  Via your grocer, Lane Crawford, in October 1949, long before it became a posh shop

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Sunday, October 30, 1949
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1940s Hong Kong
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Submitted by David on Thu, 2011-02-24 09:26.

Chapter 7 of Booth's book has a nice little story about this. "An elderly maiden aunt called Olive assumed, despite many letters to the contrary, that we not only lived under rationing but also in pretty primitive conditions." Olive proceded to send a 'care' parcel from Britain every two months.

Booth's mum finally made up and sent back a parcel for Olive containing all sorts of things you wouldn't find in rationed Britain. "Parcels from Olive ceased forthwith"!