[pendy]

We had teddy bears with button eyes on wires that came out. Never knew anyone who died from it.

I was never allowed a bike, only a tricycle. I used to hire one (two bob a day - extortionate!) from a girl in Russia Street so that I could go out with my friends. My mother would have gone mad if she'd known, but apart from the odd graze, I didn't suffer.

We used to go out in the morning with a few sandwiches and stay out all day. Nobody worried, except about the canal of course!