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Family
life [part 3]
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Did you have a toilet?
Jess: Yes
I had an indoor toilet but we didn’t have a toilet roll.
We just had newspaper in squares with a piece of string in
it.
I didn’t mind not having things because I felt lucky
having the things I had.
Devina: We had an indoor toilet and bathroom. Every window
had blackout curtains.
How
old were you when cars first appeared?
Norman:
There were always cars but there
were very few of them. Now my father had a motorcar it was
very unusual. He had a Hillman it had been made in the 1930’s
.The windscreen was vertical and it was a square sort of car.
It was only later that they got aerodynamic. I was always
used to motorcars but there weren’t many so you could
go anywhere by car as there were no traffic congestion.
What did your mum and dad
do?
Norman:
Well my father was a welder and
that was a reserved occupation so he wasn’t in the forces
because it was important for people like that to be working
in Britain for the war effort. |
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