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dotti34 · 25-07-2018, 01:45

By the way, Chippy Slater was a very enterprising and hardworking man. He would move into a house and convert it to a fish and chip shop while living on the premises. He worked all day at a local mill then went home and worked in his shop.

Polio in his youth had left him with a gammy leg that gave him trouble but he was seldom heard to complain.

He lived in an era when people didn’t complain about what life had thrown at them (what was the use), didn’t expect handouts (just as well as they wouldn’t get any), and didn’t think the world owed them a living.

Tough times, tough Lancashire folk.

25-07-2018, 01:45	#8
dotti34 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,182 Blog Entries: 80 Liked: 1471 times Rep Power: 634154	Re: Well, This Took Me Back A Bit! By the way, Chippy Slater was a very enterprising and hardworking man. He would move into a house and convert it to a fish and chip shop while living on the premises. He worked all day at a local mill then went home and worked in his shop. Polio in his youth had left him with a gammy leg that gave him trouble but he was seldom heard to complain. He lived in an era when people didn’t complain about what life had thrown at them (what was the use), didn’t expect handouts (just as well as they wouldn’t get any), and didn’t think the world owed them a living. Tough times, tough Lancashire folk.