« Reply #93 on: Friday 17 July 09 09:22 BST (UK) »
How our eating habits have changed! When I was a child we used to have pork pie and picallili for breakfast on Christmas Day. On Boxing Day breakfast was turkey jelly on toast.
On winter days mum used to give me the water the cabbage had been boiled in (for about half an hour, knowing my mum) sprinkled with white pepper. I suspect that I got more vitamins drinking the water than eating the soggy cabbage.
We had the knife grinder man knocking on the door even into the '70's. My dad said not to let him sharpen anything as he ruined Dad's scissors once!
I remember the Rag and Bone man leading his horse down the road and shouting something I couldn't understand. We never gave him anything (shame, I didn't know he paid for rags!) and I was always a bit scared of him.
I was also scared stiff of the coal man, he used to grin at me; his teeth looking very white against his coal-dusty face.
I was scared of a lot of things when I was little. What a funny kid I must have been!
Janet
And what about the gypsy flower lady!
Funny thing, is when I was pre-seven, visiting the wax museum in London
I asked a wax policeman if he had the time??? I didn't get an answer!!!
Zelley, Lovell, Godbold, Woods, Phillips, Lewis, Emery,
Magee, Baker, White. Flisher, Kyne, Tilston, Valence/Vallens,
Mabb/Mabbe, Bellamy, Selley, Martha Smith, Arno (of Dartmouth, Devon}.
Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent, Devon
North Wales
The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
places, with various occupations