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Originally Posted by MargaretR
You are two years older than me, yet I recall the soot smuts being wiped off my face using mum's spit on a hankie.
Where were you when we had the smog?
Maybe you had a silver spoon country house upbringing in the leafy southern shires  |
Jethro mentioned ' the coal and iron age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries'.
Even you and I don't go back that far!
There weren't many leafs in Steiner Street but we probably had nickel plated spoons.