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Bloomfield residents remember how people during the war used to hoard any luxury foods they got, and save them for a rainy day - but sometimes the “rainy day” never came!

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Bloomfield residents remember the rationing of food and clothes during the Second World War, and talk about how the rationing system worked.

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A Bloomfield resident, originally from Leicestershire, talks about the contrasts between visiting Blackpool before, during, and after the Second World War.  During wartime, the Tower was crowded with people of all sorts of different nationalities.

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Bloomfield residents remember the cooking in boarding-houses during the 1930s and 40s, when you had to bring your own food and the landlady cooked it for you!