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Untitled document, ts, 166p, June 1939-August 1939, GT/Ri/GW, questionnaires and interviews about food shopping and household budget for food

"Ministry of Food Questionnaire", ts, 15pp, 17.5.40, AH/BA/GT, 15 replies

"Cakes are stocked by", ts, list of stockists

"Confectioners", ts, 1, 17.11.38, Crooks' price list

"Confectioner Interviews", ts/ms, 22pp, 16.11.38-22.11.38, GT/GBE, 15 interviews with owners and staff

Paper folder containing observer accounts: "Milk Bar", ts, 1p, 20.4.[37], [JS]; "Lido Cafe, Bolton", ms, 2pp, 13.2.38, RGW; "Restaurant", ms, 3pp, 15.2.38, APW; Untitled document, ms, 2pp, 2.2.38, overheard conversation at an unspecified fish and chip shop; "Fish & Chip Shops", ts, 2pp, 17.4.[?], JS; "Fish and Chips", ts, 1p, 19.4.[?], JS, The Savoy Supper Bar; "Fish & Chips", ts, 1p, 20.4.[?], JS, The Savoy; "Fish & Chips", ts, 1p, 22.4[?], JS; "Fish & Chips", ms, 2pp, 5.8.38, WH; "Bolton Mealtimes", ms, 1p, eating times; "Bolton Cafes (lunches)", ms, 2pp, chart with details of food and prices; "Cafes", ms, 12pp, 9.5.38, LT, details of menus at various cafes, pubs and hotels; Untitled document, ms, 1p, 4.3.38, reference to Lent and fish sales; "Fish and Lent", ms, 1p, comments about the sale of fish; Misc, ms, 5pp

Observer accounts: Untitled document, ts, 5pp, details of family members, weekly menu and food shopping; "Menus", ts, 4pp, menu details for two families and a single person; "Teas", ts/ms, 1p, details of what three families have for tea; "Answer to Tea Questions", ms, 4pp, specimen teas for a week; "Tea at E. Letchford's", ms, 4pp, 13.6.[?], WH; "Teas and Food in General", ts, 3pp, Mrs Standring and family; "Teas", ts, 2pp, details of an unspecified husband and wife; "Teas, ts, 3pp, 7.12.38, BS, Mr and Mrs Hurst's family; "Working Class Tea", ts, 1p, GW; "Food of a working class man", ts, 1p, 4.8.38, BW

Letter from Mrs Mingham to Charles Madge, ms, 2pp, enclosing answers to questions about meals

Index card (1), ms, brief details of weekly menu

"Economies of the Family", ms, 2pp, 8.8.38, PF, details of retail prices of food in Bolton for February 1936 , (no source cited)

Paper folder containing:: Index cards (2), ms, details how information on shops is to be collected; Untitled document, ts, 1p, details of observers doing counts (photocopy); "Specialisation & Selling Policy", ts, 1p, classification of shops in Bolton; "Material in Folder C", ts, 2pp, details list for shops and shopping observations; "Future of trade in Bolton", ts, 1p, 24.1.40, GT, interview with James Taylor, Rope Manufacturer; "Lists of Selected Shops", ts, 1p, Ealing, Bolton and Chester; Untitled document, ts, 1p, list; "Percival Street", ms, 1p, [WH], list of people; "Norfolk Street", ms, 1p, [WH], list of people; "Women", ms, 1p, chart; "Food", ms, 1p, list; "Nos in Cake Shop", ms, 1p, 3.4.[?], WH; "[Boycs] Wireless Shop", ms, 1p, 3.4.[?], WH, overheard comment; "Shoe Count", ms, 1p, 3.4.[?], WH, in the street; "Hair", ms, 1p, statistical data on people's hair and make-up; "Shop Counts", ts, 7pp, 4.11.39-20.1.40, GT/JC/AH, numbers of people in shops; "Shops open", ms, 3pp, 29.6.[?], list; Index cards (5), ms, various counts; "Income Groups £ per year", card (1), ts, income details, (no official source cited); "Sales", ms, 1p, 16.2.40, conversation with Mrs Duckworth; Misc, ms, 2pp and card; Form "Shops Acts, 1912 to 1936", about closing shops at 7 pm on Mondays and Tuesdays

Paper folder containing:: "Bazaar", ms, 11pp, 22.11.38-8.12.38, follows; "Prices", ts, 4pp, 5.11.39-7.11.39, GT, people's comments about prices; "Household budget difficulties", ts, 5pp, 11.11.39-2.12.39, BN/GT, comments from women; "Fish and Chip Shops", ts, 8pp, 3.11.39-6.12.39, GT/BN, enquries into the state of business; "Profiteering", 3pp, 26.11.39-7.1.39, GT, comments from people; "Hoarding", ts, 1p, 6.11.39, GT, story from wife about her husband hoarding cigarettes; "Business Activity", ts, 1p, 25.11[39], GT, comment from an assistant manager at Marks and Spencer; "Post-Xmas", ts, 1p, 15.1.40, GT, brief conversation with young woman about how quiet Deansgate is; "Trade", ts, 4pp, 31.7.40, AH, conversation in a newsagents and a shoe shop; "Women. Bolton", ts, 11pp, 31.7.40, AH/BA, conversations with women about managing in war time and overheard remarks; "Trade. fashion etc. Bolton", ts, 2pp, 1.8.40, AH, conversation with the manager of Shannon's, Newport St; "Fashion. colour counts. Bolton", ts, 1p, 1.8.40, AH, count in Newport Street; "Fashions. Bolton", ts, 3pp, 1.8.40, observations and count in Queen's Park; Misc, ms, 2pp

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