Footballs and Roses

An important football match was played in Newburgh this morning. Granddad versus Argentina in the guise of the male Talpid. Usual rules applied; Granddad to lose, Argentina to win.

The first extra gives an idea of how a game in my own, black and white, youth might have looked.

On the way to the match we passed a hedge hanging in rose hips, as shown in the second extra. They brought to mind the wartime campaign to collect rose hips for the  production of National rose hip syrup.


ROSE HIP SYRUP. SUPPLIES ON SALE NEXT MONTH.
FROM: The Times, 15 January 1942

National rose hip syrup, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday, will be on sale in chemists’ shops in England, Scotland, and Wales, from February  1. Rose hips are one of the richest natural sources of vitamin C, which is particularly beneficial for children, and the syrup is therefore a useful  war-time substitute for orange juice and a distinct improvement on blackcurrant syrup. It is not intended that rose hip should be used by one and all as a tasty addition to everyday diet, but that it should be used for young children only.
The present supplies of the syrup are the result of a campaign organized last summer and autumn by the Ministry of Health and the Department of Health for Scotland for collecting rose hips. School teachers, boy scouts, girl guides, the W.V.S., women’s rural institutions, and other voluntary organizations co-operated, and some 200 tons, equivalent to 134,000,000 hips, were collected. The hips were converted into syrup by selected firms, and their total output amounts to 600,000 bottles.
A teaspoonful of rose hip syrup a day will supply half the vitamin C needs of a child. It can be taken neat or diluted with water, and has a pleasant flavour. Plans are being made for another collection of rose hips on a national scale this year.