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Today’s header gif has some newsreel footage from WW2, archived at British Pathé.

Bread, something we typically take for granted, was difficult to come by and its components regulated in the UK at the time. It even gave rise (YSWIDT) to political squabbles. Read more about the history of doughboys and dough here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/of-dough-doughboys-and-unpopular

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My DAD (Born 1912) worked in a bakery along with his brothers around the 1930s. He was the only one to make a career in baking. Working as a lead baker in the late 30s and 40s. Finally in 1951 he and my mother opened their own shop. Everything they made was from scratch! With that little shop they raised 5 children.

We all worked there either actually mixing. baking and finishing (icing etc.) or at the front counter. He was especially proud of the RYE BREAD and DANISH sweets that were famous in our modest small town.

Dad had a small RUNABOUT MOTOR BOAT that he proudly called DOUGH BOY. That was the time before licenses were needed to be displayed on the boats. The local boat club named him as COMMODORE! He often took me out with him in that boat that was my first thrill as a young lad.

I still think often of those days.

Life goes on! I miss him.

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