A very unhygenic tale

Children, without their parents knowledge, would collect cigarette ends from pavements and gutters - there were no filter tips in those days - and collect the tobacco in match boxes.

When they had a full match box, they would trade this tobacco for artefacts made by the POWs.

I saw rings and animals made of perspex from aircraft windows, etc

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