Malc Toy
The Baggie Man
My dear old late mother and father were married at Holy Cross Church in or around 1938 followed by the Wedding Breakfast at the Billesley Arms Hotel.
My mother lived lived with her mother and eldest sister at 28 Wold Walk which I remember visiting many times in my early years. I believe they moved there in the early 1920’s from a rented property at 15 Sarehole Road where they billeted soldiers during the Great War. At the time of the marriage, my Mums middle sister was already married and lived close by at 653 Yardley Wood Road which backed onto Billesley Common.
The Wold Walk council house had an outdoor loo and coal store off the kitchen which was converted into an indoor loo probably in the 1960’s. Heated by a coal and latterly gas fire with hot water being provided by heating cold water in a copper boiler by a gas burner I presume.
How much things have changed for the better and one wonders if we could cope with those conditions today but I suppose it was a great improvement on back-to-back one up, one down two room terraces where my paternal grandfather lived.
If we’re were to go back in time, the big questions we would be asking is how would we charge our iPads, connect our microwaves, our computer routers and TV’s and would our mobile phones work?
Good old days? Not so sure!
Malcolm
PS: I have some pics of my mums wedding at Holy Cross which I will dig out and scan if of interest.
My mother lived lived with her mother and eldest sister at 28 Wold Walk which I remember visiting many times in my early years. I believe they moved there in the early 1920’s from a rented property at 15 Sarehole Road where they billeted soldiers during the Great War. At the time of the marriage, my Mums middle sister was already married and lived close by at 653 Yardley Wood Road which backed onto Billesley Common.
The Wold Walk council house had an outdoor loo and coal store off the kitchen which was converted into an indoor loo probably in the 1960’s. Heated by a coal and latterly gas fire with hot water being provided by heating cold water in a copper boiler by a gas burner I presume.
How much things have changed for the better and one wonders if we could cope with those conditions today but I suppose it was a great improvement on back-to-back one up, one down two room terraces where my paternal grandfather lived.
If we’re were to go back in time, the big questions we would be asking is how would we charge our iPads, connect our microwaves, our computer routers and TV’s and would our mobile phones work?
Good old days? Not so sure!
Malcolm
PS: I have some pics of my mums wedding at Holy Cross which I will dig out and scan if of interest.
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