Headline News 70 Years Ago Today.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3064866/Read-history-happened-Extraordinary-Daily-Mail-pages-day-Adolf-Hitler-died-70-years-ago-week.html

Interesting to note however that back then Gordon's gin was £1.26 a bottle.

[naomi24]

According to the internet the average wage in 1945 was about £3.50 a week. I'll bet not many drank gin!

[stuey]

Some really interesting reading there, AOG. The paragraph "Orange Treat" on page 2 brought back some memories. I vaguely remember my mother taking me to a building in Newcastle-under-Lyme in the early to mid '50s to get a bottle of concentrate and, I think, some cod-liver oil. Were we still on rationing then?

[stuey]

I sort of chuckled at the subdued comment "...and many rude remarks were overheard." under the heading "Crowd jeers winking Nazi" also on page 2.

[Jackdaw33]

Rationing did not end completely until 1954. The last thing to come off the ration was sugar/sweets.

[Jackdaw33]

Interestingly, bread rationing was only introduced after the war, not during it.

[jno]

was there still something rationed after sweets, Jackdaw?

http://www.history.uk.com/1940s/wwii-rationing-timeline/

[stuey]

Thanks, JD. Perhaps that's the reason that I never developed a "sweet tooth".

[Jackdaw33]

Looks like it but if so I don't know what it was.

[Mamyalynne]

Meat was the last I think.

[Jackdaw33]

Just checked. Meat and bacon were the last to come off the ration.

[Mamyalynne]

4 July 1954: Meat and all other food rationing ended in Britain.

[jno]

so Vera Lynn had to stop singing "Whale Meat Again"?

[Prudie]

Anyone else feel a twinge of sadness at the 'King and Empire' line under the DM banner - looks so archaic and even if were still true they wouldn't risk printing it in case it upset readers but people of that era really believed in it.

[Jackdaw33]

I remember the orange juice. You could also get free tokens for orange juice delivered by the milkman. This was abolished in about 1957.

[jno]

I'm wondering if those pages are genuine. They use the same typefaces the paper uses now, and by the look of it it's scaled to tabloid size, though the paper was a broadschhet until the 60s at least.

[jno]

ah, no, this is the real one

http://watermarked.heritage-images.com/1270998.jpg

[Mamyalynne]

Don't bring my Mother into it Jno - yes, she was called Vera.

I got a lot of stick for that.

Yours

Lynne

[jno]

I think Vera Lynne was the first British artist to top the US hit parades, Mamya, long before the Beatles.

[Mamyalynne]

Lovely lady too, yes.

[mushroom25]

jno, the first british artist to reach the top of the billboard hot 100 was acker bilk in 1962. vera lynne's success (in 1952) preceded the hot 100 by 6 years.