REGARDING your article on child poverty (LET, November 26), we knew what poverty really was in the 1920s and 1930s, when you wouldn't go to school because you had no clogs to put on and always wore clothes from jumble sales.

But people helped one another then. They joined together to make big pans of broth, potato pie, etc.

The Government should get these TV chefs to make meals from very little, instead of the fancy stuff they produce now. We went through six years of war and still came through.

I remember in winter my four brothers sleeping in one bed to try to keep warm. Think of how many people there are living now who were in the same situation and are living to be 90 and over.

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