Thurso students turn back clock to wartime
STAFF and students at North Highland College in Thurso observed the two minutes’ silence at 11am on Armistice Day.
Many assembled in Café at Morven last Friday to remember those who lost their lives fighting for their country.
Hospitality students set up a display table with an example of a week’s rations during, and after, the Second World War. This was compared with a week’s rations current cadets receive when they go to camp.
The level-one students – Kerry Ann Smith, Ashley McPhee, Donald Green, Kara Mackay, and Emma Evans – along with Jeanna McPhee, who is studying at level three, decided to undertake the project to raise awareness of the sparse supplies people had to get by on during the war. They collected props from staff and students for the display.
Food rationing began in 1940 in an attempt to share out fairly the limited amount of food available in Britain during the war.

The conflict meant imports of food stopped completely and even that made in the country was in short supply because factories and workers were being used to produce weapons rather than food.
Rationing of some items continued until July 4, 1954.
Food rations in 1948
AN adult would have received the following amount of rationed food per week:
1: Approximately 150g of meat
2: One egg
3: 100g of fats (butter, margarine and lard)
4: 100g of cheese
5: 100g of bacon
6: 200g of sugar
7: 50g of tea
8: 50g of sweets