Hi june senn malcolm and phyllis Oh yes definetely remember all them there I used to feel so sorry for the coal man having to carry heavy bag of coal on there backs Do you all rememver the tin peice that went up in font of your coal fire? boy in the 60's wow some times we used to put peice of newspaper up over the fire always started to burn the newspaper so we had to hurry up and put it out hahahahahaha mum had a falk with about three fangs or two on push it in to one peice of bread to hold over fire for ages just for one peice of toast wow oh we all argued over the having to get up and make the coal fire in morning before going to school. We also had to clean it all up too my god aren't we so lucky nowdays? luxery is just so wonderful my dad and uncle joe loved the old radio gramm with lp's on it. We used to all danced to music perra como on saturday nights in front of radio gramm and had the chippie over the road and drinks of beer all laughed and really enjoyed ourselves mum would give us all a good old sing song when i was 11 years old then just sat in my pajamas stroking my cat treatle she was lovely cat. take care Love Carol x.x.x.x. -----Original Message----- From: JunePorter - Email Address: june.porter9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent On: 21/06/2011 20:38 Sent To: M BOWKER, Guide Chat - Email Address: bowker288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [guide.chat] In Reply To: [guide.chat] In Reply To: [guide.chat] Games back then Malcolm, you would, wouldn't you! I can just imagine what you did, but you should have hidden the goldfish as well, then no-one would have found out who took the clothes. I too remember the coalman, milkman, breadman, and the "ragman" as we used to call them. Whenever they were around, my mum would always ask for things like crockery, and things like that. Sometimes a balloon would appear. There were always old clothes to give away as there were twelve of us in our family. I also recall a vegetable van coming round and we referred to the man as "The spudman". It was a treat on a Friday night when he came round and Dad used to get all kinds of fruit along with the vegetables. I vaguely recall a horse and cart coming up the lane in the mornings. from June.