Wheels - prams, bikes and carts
"We’d scratch around for old prams and take off the carriages and use the wheels. That was quite common. We’d try and build scooters out of things." John
Portobello Road
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Brothers "Because my brothers were more my age than my older sisters , I used to hang out with them. My mother knew that when I was with my older brothers I was safe, I was fine. They taught me everything, but they were boys' things. They taught me how to ride a bike, they taught me how to climb trees. They taught me to scale walls, but I never managed that; they taught me to bowl over arm in cricket and that was fine. She didn’t mind that but when they taught me to whistle that was the last straw . She said “Ladies don’t whistle” and I remember very well my father sitting there saying “But she’s not a lady”. I had a great time with my brothers, I loved them so much. My mother used to say to me that A whistling woman and a cackling hen is no good to God nor men.” Jean |
The Glasgow Wash House "When I grew up in Glasgow my mother went to the Wash House every week. It was a big complete building where all the women would go with their prams because in their prams all their dirty washing would go. There they had big horse rails coming out. They were big rails that came out from the wall in the Wash House and that sort of got the washing dry a bit before you went home again. And then your Mum would put the washing up on the pulley in the kitchen." Irene |
Making a Bicycle
"I got my first bike out of the canal. It was the bike frame and I cleaned it and I bought wheels and did it up and I used it for quite a while. There were always lots of bike frames in the canal in those days." Eddie
"I got my first bike out of the canal. It was the bike frame and I cleaned it and I bought wheels and did it up and I used it for quite a while. There were always lots of bike frames in the canal in those days." Eddie
Boys with prams
"They needed to have something to play with. One boy has a torch and I guarantee there’s no batteries in it – and that’s what they’d play with. There’s not a car in sight. No yellow lines, no parking meters, just empty space. The boy turning round makes the picture." Peter Dixon
"They needed to have something to play with. One boy has a torch and I guarantee there’s no batteries in it – and that’s what they’d play with. There’s not a car in sight. No yellow lines, no parking meters, just empty space. The boy turning round makes the picture." Peter Dixon
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