Images of childhood

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I did actually experience this event ........VE Day Celebrations 1945 in Worcester my home town, I was only 4 years old, but the sheer number of people and the joy and exuberance imprinted it on my mind, I have lots of memory snapshots here and on Bridge Street, down to the river with boats festooned with lights......... I can even remember a sense of being bewildered by it all..

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I don't remember Winston outside the Guild Hall though
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This is the actual slums of Glasgow Scotland where my father and all of his siblings grew up in the 20's , 30's and 40's... their only play area was the filthy rat ridden Midden called the back court, where all the children played together. The flats were tiny, usually only one or 2 bedrooms...some only one room where everyone slept as well as cooked and bathed...

This photo was taken in 1920 6 years before my father was born..( the 5th child of 16)... they only had 3 bedrooms, (which was bigger than most people had) and one scullery which served as a livingroom and kitchen and also had a double bed in a recess where my grandparents slept.. and one indoor toilet.. no bathroom...they all had to go to the public baths a mile away to have a bath...

They were lucky because there's was the only flat with an indoor toilet, every family in the tenement block had to share an outdoor toilet on each apartment floor...so sometimes there would be up to 4 familes sharing one public toilet.. on each landing

Unbelievably most of these slums weren't demolished until the 1960's


My grandfathers' flat was the one in the picture with the group of people standing outside the kitchen window... and next to the rear communal entrance



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