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Video transcript
Every Sunday we went to Roker Avenue to watch the Salvation Army bands. Then
we would go home. After dinner we would get ice cream or stop in and buy one. The
we would go to grandma’s for our tea. It was snake cake. Then we went outside to
play skippies. When we went to Roker beach we had to walk there and back. My
mam had all the sandwiches and the bottles of water in the bottom of the pram. I
remember my father was in the navy and his ship blew up and my mam got her
family allowance stopped because they thought he had been blown up with the ship.
But there were eight of them in the lifeboat for 12 days and my dad was a captain’s
steward.
