Cultureshock

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When I was about 7 or 8, Pop…. Pop was always Pop not my Father, Pop was going to take me out.  It was a great surprise, because he didn’t have much time. We went up to the North Road to get on the tram car. Tram car to the bottom of Northumberland Street and then we walked across (holding Pop’s hand very tightly). We went across to the castle and were going down Castle Garth stairs and I was surprised, there were people on the stairs! On either sides. And there were things like heavy shoes hanging on the walls. Pop told me they were clogs. And I walked down these stairs holding Pop’s hand very tightly, and when we got to the bottom, “This is the Quayside”, says Pop. There are hundreds of ships, or seemed to be. We walked along the Quayside, there was a railway line! Who would expect a railway line on the Quayside?  But it was for trucks going to and from the warehouses that were taking cargoes from ships. And we walked all the way along and it was crowded and there were people and they kept talking to us, talking to Pop. Then we walked back up to Northumberland Street and got the tram car again and walked down Forsyth Road where we lived and I can remember going into the house and my Mother sending me into the sitting room and I think Pop was being told off for taking a little girl to such a dangerous place. But it wasn’t dangerous to me, it was my river and it is to this day. I love it!