Much like opening poster, I remember the gas lamps in the street and the lamplighter coming round with his long pole to hook the bar over and light the lamp.
Green and brown paint prevailed in closes/entries; there were only black cars and very few of them; horses delivering coal, the bag was weighed while you waited and us kids got to give the horse our apple core.
Most things delivered by horse and cart, even going "doon the water" our cabin trunk was transported to the Broomielaw by horse and cart!
Sugar weighed out into blue paper bags; cheese was cut by wire while you waited; butter weighed and patted into shape, the fresh/unsalted butter always had a thistle imprint.
We didn't have electricity at all until Mum moved to a new town in 1973, so no fancy gadgets or TV. We did have an old wind up gramaphone and an upright piano. We made our own entertainment or listened to the wireless with it's enormous battery which weighed a ton and had to be taken down town to be recharged!
But we were better off than those in the tenements, as we had an indoor toilet instead of a "stair heid lavvy" shared by several families and we had a bathroom with a humungous victorian bath! Water was expensive to heat so once a week baths were the order of the day.
Out in the yard we had a brick built shed with a big copper boiler with a furnace under it and two double stone sinks for "wash day" sometimes we kids got our bath in the sinks.
