Ron Draper recalls his family home, "Two bedrooms, but one was
only really a boxroom, and there was no gaslight upstairs at all.
We had candles and for the first part of my life there was only one tap between
12 houses. We used to have to go outside and they
used to freeze up in winter. People used to have burners and candles to defrost
the tap so you could get water.
I also remember the time out rents were 5 shillings and tenpence. The landlord
was forced to put these old stone sinks in.
Consequently our rent went up from five shillings and tenpence to six shillings
and fivepence per week. This was a fantastic rise to
my mother, my father was out of work at the time, and to find that other money
was terrible."
