You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt! **
When I was lad we had no Phone, TV or Car
Didn't need a phone there was a phone box on every corner (And they worked) or you could send a letter (no 140 character limit).
TV didn't arrive until one lucky neighbour got one in 1956, the whole street camped in their lounge room and watch the 1956 Olympic games in Melbourne, one of the best memories of my childhood.
No car in the early days, plenty of public transport or you rode a bike or walked. A neighbour took Mum and 2 other mums shopping once a week in an old 1945? Worsley (Like the one Sam drives in Foyles war, watched the entire series just for the car) and we felt like royalty sitting up in the back seat.
**Monty Python 4 Yorkshiremen sketch.
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