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22 May 2018

 

Tuesday again

Fishmongers Hall 1942: a self service canteen run by  the Londoners Meals Service where a two course meal was a shilling. London at War quotes Mollie Panter-Downes on 10 August 1941: ‘The classic English topic of conversation, the weather, has vanished for the duration…Everyone talks about Food. An astonishing amount of people’s time is occupied by discussing ways and means of making rations go further…’

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