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An conversation with three women about their experiences of the Second World War in the Isle of Man.
Ella Cringle, Margaret Quine and Aileen Cowie discuss the following subjects:
- Gas masks
- Rationing
- Bartering rather than paying for things
- Evacuees from England living in the Isle of Man
- Internment Camps and internees
- The aftermath of Onchan Internment Camp, moving back into the family home formerly within the camp
- Diet: pinjean, pig's head brawn, tripe etc.
- Clothes and clothing
- Illnesses, including chicken pox and small pox (resulting in a stay in the White Hoe isolation hospital)
- Childhood games
- The community of Santon and tourist industry of Port Grenaugh
- Identity cards
- Douglas Head entertainments
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