Allowance Collection

TS Mercury - Market Day
Market Day at the Training Ship Mercury - boys spend their small weekly allowance in the institutions shop, with bags of sweets apparently popular

WWI Poster, New scale of separation allowances
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, New scale of Separation Allowances for Soldiers Wives and Children... other dependents. Enlist Today and your dependents will be well provided for

WWI Poster, Soldiers Separation Allowances
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Soldiers Separation Allowances, details of increased rates. Date: 1915

The Optimist & the Pessimist by George Belcher, WW1
The Small One: They seem to think the war will be over very soon now, Mrs Arris The Ohter: I shouldn t be surprised, Mrs. Green; twenty-five shillings a week and me usband away

Dried eggs and bacon for breakfast 1945
Eggs and bacon for breakfast. What is the favourite British breakfast? Why, eggs and bacon, of course! Well, now that the allowance of dried eggs is two packets every four weeks for every grown-up

Maternity Grant Poster
Maternity grant poster, 1973 Date: 1973

Vagrants Food Ticket, Hinckley Union, Leicestershire
Ticket issued to a vagrant following his departure from the Hinckley Union workhouse, Leicestershire. When he presented it to the specified person (en route to his next destination)

Whitby Parish poor relief voucher for coal
A voucher for a shilling bag of coal, issued as poor relief by the Churchwarden at Whitby, North Yorkshire

Jehoiachin Released
Jehoachin (or Joachin), king of Judah, is released from prison by Evil-Merodach, king of Babylon, who gives him a daily allowance of bread

Daily Issue of Grog
Royal Naval ratings form an orderly queue to receive their daily allowance of GROG - a mixture of rum and water

Food Ration Book 1941
An example of a food ration book

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