A long time ago
This is one of my earliest memories from the early 1950s. My sister is sitting in the swing that hung from huge hooks in the door jamb. My mother is wearing the green tailored suit she made. She is fussing my wee sister. The doorway led from the sitting room to the hallway. We only had two rooms. The other room was bedroom for all four of us and we shared a toilet with our neighbours across the “close”. We lived there till I was 5. Then we got a council prefab with a bathroom, fitted kitchen and huge garden. Council housing was the norm, really, and there was no stigma attached to living in one. In my town the standard of council house built was very high. Houses and gardens were well maintained, apart from when the cows escaped and plodded across everyone’s lawns! Some people went on to buy their own homes, my parents being among them. But many people were able to live comfortably and safely in their council home all their lives.
- Media:
Watercolour
- Subject:
Figure
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