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kinza

families of langley mill
replied on: 7/12/2004 10:30:40 PM

yes rob it was myself and my two sons that visited the heritage centre, my youngest was fascinated with the old typewriter! but says he prefers his computer and printer!
"How did we manage on penders row" you asked,
well as kids we knew no different, didnt everyone sleep 4 or 5 to a bed?! yes those little houses were pokey to say the least, and at one stage my grandma came to live with us, so there were 14 of us in that tiny place, 3 small bedrooms an even smaller boxroom on the end of one of the bedrooms made up our sleeping quarters!
two rooms and a tiny kitchen downstairs, no hot water or heating system, toilet was at the top of the garden, we had a bucket at the top of the stairs, and with 14 people using it, it got pretty full and i had the job of emptying it every morning, on more than one occasion i fell down the stairs carrying it! made a lovely water feature,cascading down all 13 treads of the stairs!
funny how i remember that there were 13 treads to the staircase and I bounced off every one of them!
I could tell you some stories about my upbringing on east view terrace and cromford road, some of them funny but most very sad, but that as they say is another story.
We were poor, very poor but we were happy.
Maybe we should start a new thread : on growing up in langley mill in the 60s and 70s:?
take care
kinza.

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