I found this fabulous display of items at The Boston Steam & Vintage Rally at the weekend. Providing a visual understanding of the importance of the Women's Institutes during WW2.
Sugar was on ration but the Ministry of Food allocated sugar to the NFWI to be distributed to WI Preservation Centres in order to make jam and can produce which would otherwise go to waste. All the produce then went into the nation's food supply.
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