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Old Prescot, Lancashire
Prescot is a town between St Helens and Liverpool in England. Like many towns in the highly industrialised North West of England it used to have many rows of terraced houses and factories within walking distance of the workers' homes. The terraced houses were small, usually with two bedrooms and an outside toilet. There was no bathroom. Beaconsfield Street was exactly such a typical row of terraced houses with two rooms downstairs and just two bedrooms upstairs. The house front door would open directly into the "Front Room". This room was only used for funerals, weddings and at Christmas. The room was always cold because the fireplace was used so infrequently. The family would live in the kitchen at the back of the house. This room was always warm, with a large fireplace with two ovens at the side for cooking, and keeping the teapot warm. Large built in floor to ceiling cupboards provided storage for linen, papers amd hardware. The room was large, with armchairs for the parents and a small kitchen type table where the family would eat while listening to the wireless (radio). A door in the sidewall would open onto a totally dark staircase up to the bedrooms above. In the yard at the back was a flush toilet, with torn up newspaper instead of toilet paper and no light. A galvanised bath would hang on the wall, to be used once a week, by everybody, starting with the cleanest. Hot water was heated on the fire, so was a luxury you did not throw away lightly. At the top of the terraced street was a small shop where you could buy loose groceries in paper bags. At the bottom of the street (it was sloping) was the Salvation Army Hall and a primary school. The road was cobbled and there were very few cars, just the occasional milk float or rag and bone man. The street was safe for children to play in. Life revolved around the man in the house. He had to be looked after and fed well so he had the strength to go out and earn a wage to feed everyone else in the family. The man would have bacon and eggs for breakfast, the children would just be given porridge. One day a week the rent man would come round. Another day the betting shop man would call. Life was very simple then. Beaconsfield Street was knocked down in the late 1960s to build blocks of low quality maisonettes, two storey apartments. |
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