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Newspaper advertisement from July 1940, advising people to register for the rationing of cooking fats. Due to shortages, all basic foodstuffs were rationed during the war and these restrictions also continued for several years after the war had ended.From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. During the war Mrs Awdry volunteered with the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) assisting with fire watch duties and also at the Clapham War Savings Centre. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.

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Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
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Ref:	06819
Identifier:	IV 169 Vol.4
Date:	1940