May and Bert Pascoe
25th Wedding Anniversary
24th February 1962
My uncle with typical wit had just said
'I'm never going to eat all that'
Their little cottage barely had enough space for a table and two cupboards in the dining/kitchen room. Their scullery was the cooking space. Cooker, sink, cupbard in a space four feet square. I can remember much the same situation in the flat in Miss Brett's house in Tolver Place, the meat kept in a perforated zinc cupboard on an outside wall in the yard. The galvanised tin bath kept hanging in the yard. It was brought in in front of the fire to use. Hot water boiled up in another metal jug, and carried from stove to tub. I am saying this because Taroveor Road did not have a fitted bath either.
It was not until later years that I had to 'force' my aunt to have the luxury of a refrigerator.
Any large 'function' and my mother hosted, as in the picture.
However, I should add, by some curious quirk of fate,
that was also my parents' wedding anniversary date,
it was completely unplanned.
