DS#2 is to go to Kelham Island to have a fun filled day reliving the life and times of children during WW2.

The criteria includes him wearing authentic looking clothing and taking a packed lunch which would have been available back then.

Suggestions please :D

Probably bread and dripping sandwiches. :gag:

ripped, dull clothes, mucky face. Bread and water

ripped, dull clothes, mucky face. Bread and water
That's todays Parson cross estate. :hihi:

THIS (http://www.livingarchive.org.uk/nvq03/julia/rationing.html)might be a helpful site for Kids.

As someone else said, - bread and dripping or bread and cheese, wrapped in newspaper or, if you're posh, a brown paper bag with his name on it :)

On picnics though our sarnies were wrapped in muslin and then put in an OXO tin with a rubber band round it.

As someone else said, - bread and dripping or bread and cheese, wrapped in newspaper or, if you're posh, a brown paper bag with his name on it :)

On picnics though our sarnies were wrapped in muslin and then put in an OXO tin with a rubber band round it.

:gag: Dripping :gag:

I thought cheese was heavily rationed :huh: Somebody said bread and jam to me earlier today. What else I can't just send the poor little mite with one sarnie. Cake? some sweeties in a paper bag (I'll nick his sweetie coupon ;) )

THIS (http://www.livingarchive.org.uk/nvq03/julia/rationing.html)might be a helpful site for Kids.

The children in wartime link is dead :(

The children in wartime link is dead :(
It's not.
I got THIS (http://www.livingarchive.org.uk/nvq03/ronnie/clothes.html)from it just now.

It's not.
I got THIS (http://www.livingarchive.org.uk/nvq03/ronnie/clothes.html)from it just now.

Yes but the kids link doesnt work. I just tested it again :mad:

Your other link is helpful though, cheers vike !

:gag: Dripping :gag:

I thought cheese was heavily rationed :huh:

Everthing was rationed,- we were very thin kids in those days :D

Don't forget your gas mask,and make sure your garters hold your long socks up

For winter ... short grey flannel trousers, braces, a shirt and a v neck sleeveless jumper possibly fair isle knit pattern, gabardine coat, scarf and balaclava, knee socks and heavy shoes, or wellingtons! For summer, an airtex short sleeved shirt and a pair of khaki cotton shorts, plimsolls without socks. A brown cardboard box on a string worn across the body, containing a gas mask. Side parting in very short hair!

ps I don't remember any of this of course, but I've seen it in books :D

DS#2 is to go to Kelham Island to have a fun filled day reliving the life and times of children during WW2.

The criteria includes him wearing authentic looking clothing and taking a packed lunch which would have been available back then.

Suggestions please :D

Having been one of those second world war youngsters, may I suggest that sandwiches should only have margarine on one slice of bread. The wartime rations were not sufficient to run to both sides being buttered.

Cakes and the like tended to be home-made, and rice crispies covered with a ‘chocolate’ made from the cocoa tin was a favourite.

Children always carried their gas-masks, either in the original box with a shoulder “string”, or in a tin box specially made for gas-masks. Anyone who bought the set of videos of titled “Band of Brothers” will have bought them — as I did — contained in a tin marked ‘Gas Mask’. You might be lucky and find a few.

Re the packed lunch.
Flour was unrefined, then it retained a type of bran and was supposed to be more healthy.
So make sure that you use brown bread for the sandwiches.
The brown cardboard box containiing the gas mask was roughly 10" long by 6' wide and 7'' high.

Hope you enjoy your day out. Cynthia, Ontario, Canada.