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Title: The British Restaurant, Heptonstall - HCC00607
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The British Restaurant, Heptonstall - HCC00607
Description
Held in the old Sunday School, 1941.
Pictured, L to R: Mrs Day (Billy Day's grandmother), Mrs Stansfield (Jack's mother) Edith Firth, Winnie Riley, nee Sutcliffe, Maureen Sutcliffe, Joyce Westall, Maureen Westall, Muriel Maksland nee McQuerter.
British Restaurants were communal kitchens created in 1940 during the Second World War to help people who had been bombed out of their homes, had run out of ration coupons or otherwise needed help. In 1943 2160 British Restaurants served 600,000 very inexpensive meals a day. They were disbanded in 1947
Originally called 'Community Feeding Centres', the name British Restaurants was chosen by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They were set up by the Ministry of Food and run by local government or voluntary agencies on a non-profit basis. Meals were sold for a set maximum price of 9d or less. No-one could be served with a meal of more than one serving of meat, game, poultry, fish, eggs, or cheese
Some smaller places did not qualify for a British Restaurant but instead had what was termed a Cash and Carry Restaurant with meals being delivered from a nearby British Restaurant.
Photo courtesy of Mrs M. Oldfield
Pictured, L to R: Mrs Day (Billy Day's grandmother), Mrs Stansfield (Jack's mother) Edith Firth, Winnie Riley, nee Sutcliffe, Maureen Sutcliffe, Joyce Westall, Maureen Westall, Muriel Maksland nee McQuerter.
British Restaurants were communal kitchens created in 1940 during the Second World War to help people who had been bombed out of their homes, had run out of ration coupons or otherwise needed help. In 1943 2160 British Restaurants served 600,000 very inexpensive meals a day. They were disbanded in 1947
Originally called 'Community Feeding Centres', the name British Restaurants was chosen by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They were set up by the Ministry of Food and run by local government or voluntary agencies on a non-profit basis. Meals were sold for a set maximum price of 9d or less. No-one could be served with a meal of more than one serving of meat, game, poultry, fish, eggs, or cheese
Some smaller places did not qualify for a British Restaurant but instead had what was termed a Cash and Carry Restaurant with meals being delivered from a nearby British Restaurant.
Photo courtesy of Mrs M. Oldfield
Rights
PHDA - Horizons Community Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
HCC00607.tif
Collection
Citation
“The British Restaurant, Heptonstall - HCC00607,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed May 4, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/33132.
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