19-05-2011, 09:29 PM
Hi David,
Many thanks for this trip down memory lane. Anyone living on £10K a year now is in poverty. How times change.
My friends next door neighbour used to fatten pigs and I would accompany my friend on his rounds to collect waste food like potato peelings pushing a two wheeled cart around; hardly something you would see these days. I also used to accompany my father to the pit tip a few miles from home taking along a couple of Hessian sacks in a wheel barrow to search for coal and by the time we had got the coal home we were sure hot enough without it.
I can remember ration books because it was bad enough not having any money but restrictions on sweets was terrible for kids. Our local postmaster used to let us have a bag of broken biscuits for a penny; we certainly knew how to live it up.
Interesting reading David but the young generation these days who have never done without would just laugh. We are certainly getting older remembering things like this. Thanks for adding the thread I hope it receives a lot of replies.
Kind regards, Col.
Many thanks for this trip down memory lane. Anyone living on £10K a year now is in poverty. How times change.
My friends next door neighbour used to fatten pigs and I would accompany my friend on his rounds to collect waste food like potato peelings pushing a two wheeled cart around; hardly something you would see these days. I also used to accompany my father to the pit tip a few miles from home taking along a couple of Hessian sacks in a wheel barrow to search for coal and by the time we had got the coal home we were sure hot enough without it.
I can remember ration books because it was bad enough not having any money but restrictions on sweets was terrible for kids. Our local postmaster used to let us have a bag of broken biscuits for a penny; we certainly knew how to live it up.
Interesting reading David but the young generation these days who have never done without would just laugh. We are certainly getting older remembering things like this. Thanks for adding the thread I hope it receives a lot of replies.
Kind regards, Col.
