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In June 1946 prisoners-of-war who had returned home were given a “Welcome Home” party in the Town Hall Community Feeding Centres were first established in 1940 by the Ministry of Food to help people who had been bombed out of their homes, had run out of ration coupons or otherwise needed help. They were operated by local government or voluntary agencies on a non-profit basis and served inexpensive meals. No meal could be more than one serving of meat, game, poultry, fish, eggs, or chees...

Until fifty or so years ago every village, and even one as small as a hamlet, could boast of having its own shop. Since then the increasing mobility of people due to car-ownership has led to the steady decline in the number of village shops. Origins of these shops For centuries past people living in the countryside away from the towns and cities would have been dependent on itinerant tradesmen for household items they could not obtain locally. Up until the eighteenth century these traveller...