gingerjon
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN R.I.P.
Parliament Street was a mixture of different houses and shops we had terrace housing two storey and a block of two courts that were back to back houses three storeys high top was the attic below the main bedroom and below that a small living room and a very small kitchen and below this was the coal cellar each court shared two toilets a brewhouse and the miskin shed,
the people were a mixed bunch you had the better offs lived in the posher houses these all had there own toilets and two bedrooms and a box room (small bedroom) we had three huckster shops a second hand shop owned by Kate Baker a wool and needle shop and a hire business cart's and basket carriages the owner was Mr Jennings and not forgetting the pigeon shop owned by Mr Stirks Parliament street was between Park Lane and Webster Street with Burlington Street running off the middle of the street
a place were we enjoyed while we were kids never realising what poverty was till later in life we had some happy times there
the people were a mixed bunch you had the better offs lived in the posher houses these all had there own toilets and two bedrooms and a box room (small bedroom) we had three huckster shops a second hand shop owned by Kate Baker a wool and needle shop and a hire business cart's and basket carriages the owner was Mr Jennings and not forgetting the pigeon shop owned by Mr Stirks Parliament street was between Park Lane and Webster Street with Burlington Street running off the middle of the street
a place were we enjoyed while we were kids never realising what poverty was till later in life we had some happy times there