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 reminiscence session. To complement this she brings a display of original food tins 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 ends in the 1950s with the end of rationing.

Edna finds food is one subject which all generations can relate to and perhaps explains the popularity of this subject. As well as a formal talk she is often asked to display her period food artefacts and engage the public in a 'question and answer' display.

Because of Edna's knowledge of the wartime kitchen, she has appeared on television including a special wartime food edition of the BBC T.V. programme, Ready Steady Cook and ITV This Morning. Plus she has performed with Marguerite Pattern OBE on a number of occasions.

Edna's wartime kitchen talk can be adapted for Christmas, schools, historical societies and active age centres.