The House that Jack Built- the gas man cometh
I remember this one day the Gas Man called and emptied our meter, it was full of tanners, old sixpence coins, in case anybody is too young to remember. Anyway i got a bag full of tanners rebated. Wait for it....I loaded the little ones, into their transport, Stephen in his invalid chair and Michael wedged at the back. And off we went down Potters Hill, past the Aston Hipp, across Burlington Street, past Griffins (greengrocers) past a mens outfitters (cannot remember their name) across another road (cant remember the name of that one) pub on the corner, then a cake shop (was it Baines) to my mecca The House that Jack Built, facing the other Griffins (greengrocers) next door to Blacks. I rigged the kids out, cannot really remember what i bought but they needed it all.
God but we were hard-up; anyway Bill came home from work, and i proceeded to tell him about our windfall, he just looked at me and said "Any left?" - "No" - "Well did i get anything" ...."Oh yes" I gave him a tee shirt. He didn't let me live that down for years. He's past caring these days, but it was alway good for a laugh when he'd got an audience.