My Mam 1912
A Memory of Gateshead.
My mam Margaret Curran lived in Victoria Road, Gateshead and went to Victoria Road School. Her dad was down the Dunstan Colliery. She used to tell us tales of Annie Owlie who lived in Lobley Hill Woods. How she used to collect coal lumps in her upturned dress and take it home to her mam. How she went scrumping and put the apples down her pants and couldnt run because of them. How during the war her da was in charge of the horses in his battalion but due to him drinking too much whisky was relieved of his duties. How her mam died when she was just 15 and her da remarried a woman called "Lally King" so my mam travelled down to Surrey to work in a children's hospital and how she met my dad Harry Spencer, they lived in Aurelia Road, West Croydon, with me and my sister Carol. Best childhood ever, best parents ever, loved them to bits.
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