[Margaret Pilkington]

We got free school dinners at one point.....I think it was because my Dad was poorly and unable to work.....if it hadn't been for the school dinners and some very innovative cooking on my mums part we would have starved to death.
Mrs Almond on the end of Marsden St. had a bake shop and she used to let my mum have the bread that was left at the end of the day.....and any cooked spuds or veggies that hadn't sold at dinner time.