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Menu Book with meal details of Xmas dinner on 21st December 1940 at the Cash & Carry Kitchen, Oval Feeding Centre, a communal centre used during World War II. The centre was set up by Vera Calvin who joined the Women's Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS) at the outbreak of the war and was appointed Emergency Feeding Officer for three London boroughs. She also ran the Forces Clubs and later started the first Meals on Wheels service for Lambeth. Vera was awarded the BEM in 1985 in recognition of her many years of dedicated voluntary service.Digital image by kind permission of Vera Calvin. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.

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Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
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Ref:	06376
Identifier:	SPd4041/4
Date:	1940

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