Summary
Memories of growing up in Hessle Road in the 1930s are recalled today by trawlerman's daughter Elsie Atkinson, now 83, of Redbourne Street.
They were hard times, but her mother had a reassuring and down- to-earth saying: "What you don't get, you don't miss!" From 1928, the family home was in Brighton Street and her father, Thomas, was a deckylear ner.See the full content of this document
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Elsie said: "Money was tight, but mother learned to live with this."
The central feature of the kitchen was an open-grate fireplace with an o...See the full content of this document
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