Wigan Album
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Photo: dk
Item #: 5709
I don't remember milk bottles like that myself although the tea caddy was still going strong twenty odd years later.
The covered bowl and paper bag, I'd suggest, was shelling peas. I can see my Mam now sut there stripping peas from their shells into a bowl with her thumb nail and eating a few as she went along. The cover will have been a crocheted home made job - a lot of that went on in our house, crocheting and knitting ....and fradging. (good word that, Joseph)
Oh aye! Them Belle Green women could fradge for Queen and country.Another exellent photo of home life,not afraid to say they bring a lump to my throat,thanks DK.
Re the milk bottle - I seem to remember you could buy reusable plastic caps for use once you had prised the crown cork cap off a bottle of 'sterry'.
those bottles were indeed sterilised milk,
i think that pasturised had a more stumpy type bottle with silver foil on top which were of different colours, ie. red ,silver and gold.
depending which type of milk it was
thinking about them peas.
my mam would get the hard ones and steep um overnight ready to boil up for sunday dinner when all the family would descend upon them for a free meal
I was born in Belle Green Lane 151,in 1963 any pictures any-one?.Best regards xx