General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I did see that report on the BBC last week, with the street urchins in the coal, and a man pushing a bike, with a sack of coal over the cross bar, he must have been coal picking, and the last time I saw that was in 1974 over the old Pemberton Collieries site, when Whupsy and his mates were holding the country to ransom, and folk were going coal pickin, and I remember those power cuts too, and me mam making us teas, using a frying pan over a candle

I remember there being a shortage of candles, and candles being rashioned, if you had a torch yoo were posh.