£15 per week , take home pay in the mines of Lancashire, out weekends we a greyxwhippet. i can see the look on my mothers face now, when i came home with the bunnies
good days. poaching tales, you wouldnt believe em
Aye; and we lived in't middle of road in cardboard box ! Hand full of cold gravel for breakfast, then down pit for shilling a day !! Luxury !! Try telling kids that today, and they won't believe you !! LOL !!
Cheers.
You were lucky. What we'de have given for a cardboard box........we used to walk 25 mile t'pit, work 20 hours a day and have to pay pit owne