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Swansea
Egg preserving pail
Wartime egg rationing meant one per person per week, and sometimes only one a fortnight. People were encouraged to keep their own chickens, and if you had less than twenty hens you were allowed to keep all the eggs.
To stop them going off you had a bucket like this, filled with isinglass, which comes from the air bladders of certain fish, especially sturgeon. The eggs would be in a wire basket inside the bucket.
The roosters were eventually killed, because meat was very short.
Activity: Connections
Look at the picture and read, listen to, or print the story.
Now think about how any of the pictures might connect, save the Connections Write Sheet and use your imagination to explain how you think they could connect.