Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 The East Barnet WVS pig food collection unit have been given permission by the local gas company to use their weigh-bridge to weigh the amount of kitchen scraps collected each day. Here we see Kathleen Kent (head of the unit) collecting the slip of paper stating the weight from the weigh-bridge master. According to the original caption, the weigh-bridge usually registers about half a ton. WVS driver, Mrs Gerald De Rivaz, can be seen beside the car just behind them. Clearly visible on


Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 The East Barnet WVS pig food collection unit have been given permission by the local gas company to use their weigh-bridge to weigh the amount of kitchen scraps collected each day. Here we see Kathleen Kent (head of the unit) collecting the slip of paper stating the weight from the weigh-bridge master. According to the original caption, the weigh-bridge usually registers about half a ton. WVS driver, Mrs Gerald De Rivaz, can be seen beside the car just behind them. Clearly visible on the trailer is a painting of a pig preparing to eat, the emblem of this salvage campaign.


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