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Lane Crawford Ltd-Food Parcels for Home-1949

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2020-05-04 03:29
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949

As the 75th anniversary celebrations of VE day will take place this week, and later this year VJ day, this advert from 1949 recalls that food shortages and rationing were still in place in the UK many years later.

Lane Crawford-The Grocer-advert-1949

Submitted by IDJ on Thu, 2011-02-24 03:33
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949

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

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