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nottinghamcsv
People in story: 
Derek Richards
Location of story: 
Nottingham
Background to story: 
Civilian
Article ID: 
A4615724
Contributed on: 
29 July 2005

This story was submitted to the People's War site by CSV/BBC Radio Nottingham on behalf of Derek Richards with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

Spanish Root I remember eating this as a substitute to sweets as we had no coupons in the ration book for sweets, Spanish Root was a very sweet wood and cost 3p an ounce.

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