Childhood memories

Sorry Mollie if this might be in you plans but, I have one that you might like,

when ever we have a family meeting, be it a wedding, funeral or christening i'm always telling the young uns about my early life and how we had nothing but, we were happy, So when i start a tale you can hear the, " Oh no Tom's off again about the old days" .
Well this one time was a christmas day party and I was on me soap box and telling them how we were happy to get a colouring book or a Beano annual and today, you are getting Iphones and computer games, My elder sister pipes up and says, Toms right, we enjoyed walks with our parents and their company and not, what they gave us, I joined in again and said, " hey sis do you remember the walk when there was a crashed plane in a field near our house ? " At that the yung uns laughed and said, here we go again another ' we had it hard life story' until my nephew, who had just got the newest iphone, googled it and was amazed to find it was true, In 1955, when i was only 3 or 4 years old, An American plane flying from Amsterdam got into problems and was looking to land at Burtonwood airdrome but crashed in a field near our house in Billinge, Sinse that day, all my stories carry more credibility,,

As we reminisce about our child hood, does anyone remember diphtheria, polio rickets? I'm sure there are more. I can imagine tonker throwing a tantrum and objecting to the vaccinations. What about the smog made worse by burning coal. Or having an outside lav, or a tin bath in the kitchen, windows frozen on the inside. Eeeee those were the days

Hey Tom, I don't have any special privileges on here for starting threads. You go for it, chuck! In fact, I have a few true tales of my own which I can add.

First Mate:

Yep, tin bath in front of the fire, ice on the insides of windows, potty under the bed. Trotting down the yard in winter was out of the question. The squares of newspaper nailed to the door in place of lavvy paper. When it got damp, you got yesterday's headlines tattooed to your backside. Worse still, was when Izal came onto the market. It was more of a distributor if you wiped with the shiny side!