This is a thread for reminiscing.. I love hearing about how life was in times gone by. I'll start the ball rolling.
She lived in a northern terrace, Coronation St style. I used to love sliding down the bannister as a kid. There were individual light switches that dangled down from the ceiling over the beds, so you could switch the light off after reading without getting up. She had all the servants bells above the kitchen door. The back door was wooden tongue & groove with diagonal bars, a metal latch & giant key. Her enamel sink stood on iron legs & there was a rise & fall cupboard I think they call a 'silent butler' that went up to the 1st floor by pulling on a rope. The back bedroom was bitterly cold in winter with ice inside the window. Out the back was a communal walk-thru area where all the women hung their washing.
When she went to the market, she'd buy a bag of broken biscuits for us kids. Sometimes, she'd give me some money to go & buy her ciggies from the corner shop! 20 Silk Cut, the whole house reeked of them.
She was very happy my gran. She'd been a dancer through the war & entertained the troops. She's long gone now but there's so many questions I wish I'd asked.
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