Mrs Smith's apples and Jack's potatoes

Today, spinach. I needed my spinach. Two for a pound so I can’t get them any better from anywhere else.– Nessa

There used to be an egg stall that used to just sell fresh eggs and bacon, and then there was a shop selling Savaloys and pease pudding. You know, it was all different, totally different.– Sharon

You knew that Mrs Smith’s apples were the best. And Jack had all these lovely potatoes.– Ahmed

I used to go – Sunday morning. Get bagels and pickled herring and a green cucumber out of the barrel… We used to have winkles and shrimps.– Joyce

We’d always have the same thing to get, so my Mum would have a sticky bun, and I would have one of those, you know there was an ice-cream cone with marshmallow instead real ice cream? Which is really gross when I think about it, but I really liked it.– Nishat

You had rations for everything. I remember myself going for sweets. I had to give Miss Sherrad this book, and she would portion out so many little sweets – and you had farthings – so you had a certain farthings amount of sweets. You can imagine how small that was.– Marg