During the late 50's early 60's i was growing up in twickenham drive on the Leasowe Estate, and some of the "Characters" i remember are the rag 'n' bone man with his horse, the coal man selling coal by the Cwt, and the noise it made as he dumped it down the coal hole, the clink of the empty bottles as the milk man delivered at 0530, hideing from the council rent man "come out i know your there","LOL".
The one who always facinated me was the knife sharpener
who had a bike which he sat on and pedalled which drove a belt from his
back wheel to the front of the bike which turned his grindstone.
All the kids use to sit around and watch this guy at work all the sparks, great just like bonnie night.
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used to lay awake listining for me old man, getting in from the pub the oyster catcher, normaly around midnight, he was barman there.
in summer our gang used to go swimming in the river mersey, or in the river birket,(boy did we live dangerously then), or we'd walk to bidston hill/new brighton, used to leave around 9am haveing packed a 3 course lunchion doorstep sarnie, slice of home made cake and an apple, a bottle of corpie pop (tap water) we were off for a full days exploration, often getting back around 6/7 at night.
O' for those days again.
sweets i remember
Black jacks
penny joe's
sherbet dabs
Licorice whips
Flying saucers
penny shrimps
gob stoppers (that would last all day)
Wigwams? (full of aniseed balls)
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