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The best day ever

Pat Doran

I don't remember exactly what age I was but as it was just mum, dad and me so I guess I was around 5 or 6. What I do remember, really quite vividly, was that it was the best day ever!

My mum and dad, like everyone else around us, didn't have a lot of money. After a period of being 'idle', dad got a job in Ferranti's at Crewe Toll. As the trades fortnight approached I do remember a lot of whispering and shushing in our wee tenement flat. ... (continues)

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