ON THIS DAY

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JULY 4, 1945

HOuSEWIvES of Birmingham, tired of queuing for shopping, are to form their own anti-queue committee. A Mrs Grace Rathbone stood for 2½ hours for her potato ration and got 3¼ lb for the week. While a Mrs Boyle, a mother of 17, said that in three weeks she had been able to buy only 2lb of potatoes. They want the Minister of Food to prevent ‘queue-crawling’ by women who have plenty of leisure to go round half-a-dozen shops.

JULY 4, 1967

POSTAl coding will cover three-quarters of Britain by the end of 1969, Edward Short, the Postmaster- General said in Norwich yesterday. Codes for Brighton, Cardiff, Newport, Coventry, leicester, Nottingham and Derby will be announced this summer.