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From Val at 17.45
Ok Mag - how about
the coalman heaving coal down into the bunker (I can smell it just saying that)
the milkman with a horse and cart
classrooms heated with a coke stove
hair curling irons heated on the coke stove in the kitchen
gypsies coming to the door selling clothes pegs
street games with crowds of children
Listen with mother
a spoonful of malt
Vick’s vapour rub
inedible suet pudding at school
the day my mother thought she would serve tripe...
children’s Saturday morning cinema at the Odeon with boys throwing drawing pins at the screen
Liberty bodices, gaiters and long woolly socks held up with garters....
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