I remember the Home and Colonial and queuing up there for eggs that were off ration I think they named them ‘off priority’ and we were allowed 6.
My uncle Bill Hall was a founder member at the Warren Farm ex service,I remember a collector calling around our house to collect half a crown a week to build the first club with the entry in Danesbury Crescent. Uncle Bill also served in North Africa.
From Chris Hillcox’s Voices of Kingstanding (https://kingstanding.wordpress.com/memories/ammenaties/british-legion/kingstanding-ex-service-mens-club/), shared with his permission..
Filmed for Voices of Kingstanding in 2011, Margaret Crompton describes joining the Land Army and the air raids on Kingstanding during the Second World War.
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