HiJune, Rationing finished around 1959. Hay Jenny, What kind of gas mask did you have. I had a Micky Mouse one. love Malcolm. xxx. Well Jennie I don't remember food rationing, but I vaguely recall boiling washing in a copper boiler. I remember the first washing my mother bought, and it gave me an awful fright when I heard it going. I don't think we bathed in the same water, although it was heated up by a coal fire. I think food rationing must have finished by the time I was born. from June. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus Database: 2109/4746 - Release Date: 01/16/12