Introduction

In these days of instant communications, 'fitted kitchens' and centrally heated homes; it is perhaps difficult to picture the way of life that rural people lived just two generations ago.

We take for example, the availability of clean running water, a plentiful choice of tempting foods at the supermarket and that there is certainly no necessity for us to grow our own food.

This was not the case in 1939....

[David Gulley on cottage life in 1939]

The diet of country folk in the 1930's would be considered to be very limited, both in terms of variety and quantity by people in Britain today.
'Fast food' did not exist and neither did school dinners!...

[Geoffrey Goodson on the Winter Pig]

[John Gresham on killing the family pig]

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