cablenew_noel

Moving on to 1973 we moved to a bigger house nearer to nana lol .
Dad wasn’t working away as much so he got to know how much of a hand full we were
Cos mum would tell him every night he came home.
Mum didn’t work in them days , she was mum looking after us ….along with nana , who we saw every day of the week , nana would spoil us rotten bringing us a penny mix every day … sixpence at the weekends.
Around this time we had an addition to the family another brother ,if ...

Nana loved me and my brother we were her favorites lol, grandma favoured my sister
Was a bit of a snob was grandma and granddad ,grandma worked part time in a shoe shop
She was forever giving mum new shoes ,granddad couldn’t work ,as he had got his fingers trapped in something at work and they couldn’t sew them back on.
But they were snooty lol house all spick nspan not a speck of dust anywere
We couldn’t touch owt at grandmas lol nothing she would shout at us and ...

1970 saw me at my 1st football match down at elland rd ,dad said it was a treat got the tickets from a m8 who new a m8 who new a m8s dad if you know what I mean.
I hadn’t seen as many people in my life ,no fences to hold you in and no seats either,90 minutes was a long time for a little lad to stand up lol.

Weeks later Dad took us all to the train station with suitcases packed ,he had to go working away and a house was part of the deal so we all got the train down to Weston ...

When dad was on his way home we knew we would be in trouble for all the bad stuff we did for mum .
Mum always said wait until your dad gets home , and the only time we would be botherd is the day he was due home we would be as good as gold that day for mum , hoping she wouldn’t tell dad everything we had been upto.
She did though maybe not as soon as he came through the door but she told him .

The 60.s went in came the 70’s dad still worked away a lot and we saw ...

she would take us to school monday to friday..be there for us with sweetys at home time 2.45 in them days...then she would take us home to mums .leave us there and we would have tea, play with toys, we had coal fire 1 in the kitchen 1 in the living room the 1 in the kitchen was always hotter than the other 1 and we have often been told that as kids if we didnt get our own way we would get the toys out and throw them in the fire, remember in them days they were mostly wooden toys , we would throw ...