"Hiya Norrie ..... where is the picture of Huntershill Street .. I must have missed that one ????.......... more bye`s for now ....... Fi xx"

"hello Joyce, yes I remember the Steamie as a girl, going with my mum from Queenshill Street. The washing basket on the old 'bogey' Lots of soapy smells and steam and noise. As a wee girl I wasn't allowed in but sat on the big stone staircase that led up to the Steamie. As a young wife in 1964 I used the steamie for a few years until I got a twin tub...bought in a liquidation sale for £25 more than two weeks wages then. I think the good old days, although they were hard then for all of us, we still had everything we needed to survive and there wasn't much around at that time to actually want. At Christmas if you were very very lucky you might get a bike or a dolls pram , I never did but it seemed happier then. A good grounding that perhaps the bairns to-day could learn something, not all, from. A nice big family like yours I could imagine the washing being never ending...I've still got a washing board...not a glass one though only posher folk,to me, had glass ones,lol"