Material relating to World War Two and Rationing

Original documents which are either indirectly related to Sainsbury's or surplus copies of material held in the catalogue.

14 ration books (general, child, national service) dated 1939-1954.
1 purchaser's shopping card (sugar) (no date).
1 soap rationing: notes for the guidance of retailers (1945).
1 newspaper advert for extra clothing coupons for manual workers (1945-1946).
1 newspaper article on food subsidies (1951-1952).
1 clothing book (1947-1948).
1 newspaper extract concerning recipes (no date).
1 poster giving retail meat prices (1942).
1 copy of 'The Kendal Cookery Book' compiled by Miss J. Cowx and published by Titus Wilson & Son Limited 1944.
1 table of rationed foods with type of coupons required and weights allowed (no date).
Ministry of Food postcard informing householders of the location of emergency food supplies in the event of an invasion (no date).
1 endorsement slip stamped Croydon Food Control Committee London (1943).
1 newspaper article on food facts: how to get get your extra Christmas rations (no date).
Leaflet on how to deal with incendiary bombs and other devices containing phosphorus (1942).
3 page of ration coupons (no date).
1 national registration identity card for Elizabeth Shepperd of Farnham, Surrey (1943).
1 leaflet of instructions to food retailers, other then butchers on rationing, a covering letter from Chorley food control office, licence to trade in foodstuffs by retail for Joseph Wallwork (1939-1942).
1 newspaper titled the 'Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph', dated 15 July 1944.
1 booklet on 'How Britain was fed in War Time: Food Control 1939-1945' HMSO 1946.
1 leaflet by the Ministry of Food explaining the points rationing scheme and the points banking system (1946).
2 leaflets on cattle branding prices (no date).
1 leaflet explaining how enlistment works (no date).
1 school book containing recipes and child care notes taken by Joyce Hinkins (Downey), dated 1942.
5 newspaper cuttings regarding Sainsbury's contribution to the running of the rationing (1995).
3 War Damage Act publications dated 1942, 1945 and 1964.

Also includes multiple copies of SA/SC/25/3, SA/EMP/4/3/4, SA/EMP/1/28