Life In Ordsall
Elizabeth Brookes, outside the New Park Road Newsagents. Photo courtesy of Ralph Brookes |
Elizabeth Brookes - HousingBorn 1901 in Salford. Interviewed 1990 - T093  Click here to listen to this extract in RealAudio format.And then the black cookers come out, solid black cookers, range, yes. They called them stoves then. That was before electric, like - gas, amd the gas brackets used to come out of the wall. They had mantles on, if you weren't rich enough to buy a mantle you'd have just the flame. Because your mantles broke very easily, if you was lighting it with the - I'm saying tapers, it'd be matches then - you'd break your mantle. Very fine, wasn't glass, it was like gauze but very fine ... |
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