[Margaret Pilkington]

We made use of a grant for an indoor toilet in 1969...... but if I remember rightly we had to put as much in from our own money as we got from the grant......I know it was a struggle for us at the time because my daughter was only about 8 months old and I hadn't gone back to work. The grant system does seem a bit biased, I know that they did up a lot of the houses on Marsden St with grant money, my dear old Ma lives up on Riley's Hill and when she enquired about having central heating put in using a grant she couldn't get one.