[junetta]

My mother bought our house in Holland Street for three hundred pounds. That was around 1959. My parents shared the back bedroom with my brother whilst I was in the front one with my Nana. I remember that her mortgage was a pound but can´t recall if that was per week or per month.

She died in the mid sixties and I bullied my father into getting a grant for a bathroom. The first proper bath I´d had in my life.........no more tin jobby in front of the fire!

I got the little bedroom, my father and my brother moved into the front bedroom and Nana had the front room downstairs.

I´ve always presumed that all those streets around that area were either mill houses or miners´ houses. Lots of happy memories and quite a few sad ones and now it´s gone.