Sweets eaten during the war:

After researching what penny sweets children would eat during the war, liquorice appears the most popular.  Gobstoppers and ‘bulls-eyes’ also seemed a great buy for the children, using their pocket money.  For our piece, we are thinking about including the sweet shop located near Steep Hill, as we can take our audience into the shop and buy the liquorice. This will then hopefully keep the audiences attention, and is also a type of audience interaction we could use in our piece.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25415720

War Time Songs:

Researching war time songs, ‘We’ll Meet Again’, seems a popular song from the time.  Other war time songs include: ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’, ‘Run Rabbit Run’ ‘Don’t Sit under the Apple Tree’ and more. I feel that we could use sections from these songs in our performance, when moving on to the next scene perhaps. I feel that if we use songs that were played during the war, it will make the audience feel part of the performance and it could also create further imagery in their minds about the time period.

http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=836389