“There used to be an egg stall that used to just sell fresh eggs and bacon, and then there was a shop selling Savaloys and pease pudding. You know, it was all different, totally different.”

“Today, spinach. I needed my spinach. Two for a pound so I can’t get them any better from anywhere else. ”

“...You knew that Mrs Smith’s apples were the best. And Jack had all these lovely potatoes.”

“I used to go - Sunday morning. Get bagels and pickled herring and a green cucumber out of the barrel... We used to have winkles and shrimps.”

“We’d always have the same thing to get, so my Mum would have a sticky bun, and I would have one of those, you know there was an ice-cream cone with marshmallow instead real ice cream? Which is really gross when I think about it, but I really liked it.”

“You had rations for everything. I remember myself going for sweets. I had to give Miss Sherrad this book, and she would portion out so many little sweets – and you had farthings – so you had a certain farthings amount of sweets. You can imagine how small that was.”