Well done, Elizabeth! When a lad I had to transcribe choral music from Staff Notation to Tonic Sol-fa for my mother. I learned piano also (hopeless now) - so when I saw the Nocturnes in 5 flats I did not know whether to laugh hysterically or cry!
Well done, Elizabeth! When a lad I had to transcribe choral music from Staff Notation to Tonic Sol-fa for my mother. I learned piano also (hopeless now) - so when I saw the Nocturnes in 5 flats I did not know whether to laugh hysterically or cry!
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The GWR owned the houses and had buit a rear extension (haha!) to the 2 up 2 down. Result was a boxroom and, downstairs, the "gegin fawr" (main kitchen). I think most of us lived in similar houses. There was no rear or side entrance, of course, so the coalman carried his sacks through the house!
That's interesting. Ours was owned by a private landlord (2/6 rent in a green glass jug on top of the mantlepiece each week).
My Dad built an extension (asbestos!) but it was a darkroom for what was to become his blossoming Photographic business. We consequently had just the original small kitchen and the one living room. We did have a rear entrance though so the coalman delivered at the back of the house.
From teens onward we lived elsewhere and fairly well. A worthy piano trade off? The jury is out on that one.
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My father built his darkroom into the "cwts", (the cupboard under the stairs!) I suspect that rear access was sacrificed for the extension. After nationalisation the houses were taken over by "Docks and Inland Waterways". They fitted a bath into - the kitchen! It was all right though as they thoughtfully added a fold down table over the top. Sheer luxury!! Easier than the old zinc bath, anyway
So where did the coalman put your coal? Not in the extension surely? Our coal house was outside next to the toilet in the back yard.
Among other things my beloved "trolley" (push chair) was kept in our stair cupboard.
A proper bath! I didn't have the luxury of one of those until I was 14. The old zinc one was great in the back yard in summer with loads of soap suds in it though!
Our square kitchen table (in the middle of the kitchen) took up a relatively huge amount of space so your fold down table definitely had the wow factor!
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