Happy New Year

[robpage]

We never had a lot of money as kids in the early 1915 my dad used to earn £5 a week and out of that all the food rent used to get paid for . I lived in a small mining village in North Derbyshire and when you got Frost on the glass of your bedroom window it was on the inside not on the outside . But we always ate well . The front and back door had half an inch gaps underneath but Dad nailed a big piece of potato sack in to stop the wind blowing through and you can keep warm if you could get on the Old peg rag rug do within two feet of the coal fire . In that small tight knit community nobody ever went without because everybody helped everybody else and now I think the sense of community is gone . I go back there now no longer does that village house miners but because it's picturesque the little two up two down cottages or holiday homes or modern commuter housing for fairly well off people . But thinking of Vic's comment on Nottingham I can remember on the slab Square which I think it was called having roday we work call the poor and homeless in those days they were beggars and tramps

[cappy]

I hope you guys are not using the girls real names, that would be very ungentlemanly

###jeez ivan in shields even the girls didnt use there real name ...we had a tallulah bankhead in our st

[cappy]

##poverty was what a family of my relations had he was a pit prop carrier on the docks...waiting in a line when the boat came in from the baltic with the pit props ...you waited to be told to work or not ......casual labour but donkey work .......4 kids and when he got his money went in the pub then blew it .....poverty to day makes me bloody laugh .....

[robpage]

###jeez ivan in shields even the girls didnt use there real name ...we had a tallulah bankhead in our st

Bugga , wasn't that her real name ?

[cappy]

Bugga , wasn't that her real name ?

well she did that as well rob but said it made her eyes water lol

[Ivan Cloherty]

well she did that as well rob but said it made her eyes water lol

Probably tears of joy then!

[cappy]

###new year time about 20 year ago i met a guy and his wife who was wearing a vindi sweatshirt in the air port in spain there was my mate and his wife pat and i and this couple we had a few bevvies and some how all wandered through security and got a board the same plane .....all hell broke loose as spanish coppers and passengers whose seats we had taken got involved ,,eventually we had to get off as our bags were on the other plane going to leeds bradford..according to my beloved it was all my fault ...me i blamed security.....and saint miguel

[robpage]

##poverty was what a family of my relations had he was a pit prop carrier on the docks...waiting in a line when the boat came in from the baltic with the pit props ...you waited to be told to work or not ......casual labour but donkey work .......4 kids and when he got his money went in the pub then blew it .....poverty to day makes me bloody laugh .....

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When I first arrived in South Shields there was a pub on Horsley Hill road called the Westoe there was an alleyway that cut through to the college , first Friday walking through there at just gone five o'clock it was lined with 30 or 40 young (ish ) women and some middle aged and older . I thought it was a line up for a knocking shop , good job I was shy then , it was wives waiting for husbands + pay packet n their way home from Redheads , getting the housekeeping before it was gambled in the pub

[cappy]

###pub still there rob not in the best shape last time i looked in .....

[robpage]

IF the women are still there the youngest would be 85 , and they will be waiting a long time for a Redhead's pay packet