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Old 10-12-2010, 19:45   #25
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Re: The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter

No Margaret I was attending the Calder College for Further Education and our class started at 9am, I was on day release from work as an apprentice engineer.
I had left Grammar School but got up earlier then to catch the school bus or walk the two miles down the valley. Bus fares were repaid in those days but my ma gave me the money and the school paid it back four times a year, no matter what the family income.
I would buy sweets with the money and walk on some days then give the sweets to my favourite girl friend, Oh happy carefree days behind the bike shed. Bike shed by the way has two meanings, I only knew one and didn't have a cycle.
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