Ahead of Remembrance Day, Ellen Haylor recalls her memories of living through war.
Mrs Haylor, from Barnes, is 30 years older than the NHS, was 11 when the Great Depression struck the USA and 13 when the first Tesco opened.
"The funny thing was, we had to walk past where it was on the opposite side of the road. The bomb disposal people tried to defuse it. I remember it started ticking and eventually exploded."J Lyons & Co Ltd food factory, Hammersmith Road, London, October 1918. Mrs Haylor would later work for the firm in the next war
"Although we didn't have much in terms of entertainment, we made our own. The worst part of it was the rationing, we didn't get a lot of food - we used to get about two ounces of butter weekly."We survived on plain English cooking, like steak and kidney pudding, pies and roasted meat.
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