Our most requested service is Edna's 30 to 45 minute "show & tell" lecture on the wartime kitchen which can also form part of an educational workshop, practical demonstration or remembrance session.

Edna gives the "show & tell" talk while wearing an original WVS uniform and has a display of original food and household artefacts. The talk begins in 1939 at the start of the war, covers rationing, the introduction of lend lease food, the points system, victory gardens, salvage and the talk ends in the 1950s with the end of rationing.

Edna has also led "cooking with rations" demonstrations. These are wonderful events and allow visitors the chance to see such wonderful food such as mock banana & pea pod soup being created.

We find food is one subject which all generations can relate to and perhaps explains the popularity of this subject. As well as a formal talk we are often asked to display our period food artefacts and engage the public in a question and answer display.

Because of Edna's knowledge of the wartime kitchen, she has been asked to appear on television including a special wartime food edition of the BBC T.V. programme, Ready Steady Cook and ITV This Morning.

Edna's wartime kitchen talk can be adapted for Christmas, children, schools, historical societies and active age centres. A wartime kitchen educational worksheet is also available.