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I remember there were not telephones or cars, we couldn’t put up Christmas lights, no ice cream or fruit. It’s amazing what you can do with a potato! We had no pretty clothes. Only the doctors or very rich people had cars. The nurses had bicycles and would come to the homes to birth babies. What cash we had was spent on good stuff not rubbish. Somehow we’d always have a birthday cake on our birthdays — I don’t know how my mother did it.
There was a lot of activities in the churches and chapels and I remember one a day a shop on the main road where I lived had made some ice cream — just one big tub. The story went round the village like wildfire and we went down to get some, you just got one blob on some tissue paper.

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