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My preferred order was fish, scone and chips with scraps. Podmore’s was still going in 1987 but closed not long after that when the couple that ran it retired. Did anyone else judge their height in relation to how high they came up to the chip shop counter?
Though it wasn't a favourite of mine, something that many people used to eat was haslet.
I only recently discovered what it was - a Lincolnshire version of meatloaf apparently.
I went to my grandma's house down Calton Street Lund Park Area in Keighley
every Thursday it was always Polony and Chips. She sent me to Cunnigham's Fish shop on
Victoria Road for a few penneth o' curly chips. It were reight grand.
I had a mate who would go into the greengrocer's and ask for damaged fruit: they had a box near the floor containing rejects.
We also had a lad in the village who would beg the core when he saw a kid eating an apple. I never knew if his dad worked or not.
Gilbert Swift also told us that we should wear clean socks each day; if we couldn't manage that, we should wear a pair alternate days. Unbelievable today?