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I used to go out every Saturday morning ( wearing my gas mask on my shoulder) at 8'O' clock to the gas works where coke was sold by the bag at one shilling a bag. I walked up there with my mother's bicycle and bought the coke. I always queued for a long time and I had to ask the man, who weighed the coke to help the bag onto the bike. I then staggered it back to the house about half a mile away. When I got home my mother used to say, " Barbara did you hear if there were any bananas." Sometimes there were a few at Mr Hopper's who kept them specially for children rather than the grownups. I would go to fetch them but at the same time I had to go and queue for the bread. To collect bread we had IU's. Each time we collected we had a cross put through a square on the IU with an indelible pencil.
In the afternoon four or five of us used to get together to look for mushrooms. Mother would never let me go out on my own except for the errands.
Saturday nights were often spent listening to the radio or I or my sister would play the piano.I remember ITMA on the radio and the tune that sent us to bed was the tune to In Town Tonight though I don't remember what it was called.
I also remember that my grandma always kept everything in her 'fort' a black handbag, her birth certificate, marriage lines, insurance policies the lot.

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