War Fair- Holidays at Home at a Fete in Russell Square, London, 1943 Film and stage actor Derek de Marnay stands at a microphone and holds aloft the very small, very green, banana being auctioned as part of the festivities in Russell Square. Many of the children pictured here will not have seen a banana before, due to the scarcity of this fruit in wartime. According to the original caption, the banana fetched ?GBP5.
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