End for unwanted kittens

the community. I liked nothing better than listening to the adults having a chinwag about the good old days, sharing family stories and gossiping.

The walls of the haberdashery store were lined with wooden doors with glass panels and tiny little drawers which held ribbons, buttons and metal zips. Women who wanted to knit a jumper asked at the wool shop if they here were kittens, five of my aunt Ellen was only keep one. ut two hours she picked up and eventually said, ”, breaking her heart for

n, “No, this one,” picking ger one. Before, “Ah, but could buy a ball a week – “Put the balls away”. This meant they had worked out how many were needed, then collected one a week, paying as they knitted. Folks couldn’t afford to buy everything at once. Tobacconists sold single cigarettes to those who couldn’t afford the pack.

The winters in Benwell were usually severe but none more so than when the snow of 1963 arrived.

As homes had no central heating, can’t we keep them all, please?” “No, only one,” she was told in no uncertain terms.

She eventually picked little ginger, knowing all too well that the others would be drowned in a bucket. This was the cruel practice back then – every cat-owning family did this, vets weren’t heard of. Two women chat in public wash house Kids play on stairway at derelict home Proudly preparing party for Queen’s coronation