isnt it all relative though....you see the amount of food we dump out marie...nothing got thrown out in my house...me ma made pudding outa stale bread....left over everything got refried or heated and eaten..sour milk got baked with....i went thro my fridge this morning for use by dates and chucked out im sure what would have fed my mothers family for two weeks cos the dates were close to expiry................she couldnt afford to worry about expiry dates lol..clothes got ripped apart and remade into something someone wore.............and you wore your shoes with holes in them..youd stick in a piece of cardboard...............
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Originally posted by mai View Posti lived in a tenement in sean mcdermott street. and everything you said helen was same in my house. my mam pawned dads suit on monday and got it out on sat'Never look down on a person unless you're helping them up'.
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Originally posted by Rashers View PostMy gran used her maiden name.... never figured out why.Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!
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We stayed fairly local but apart from Rafters in Gardiner Street, the other two, Buckingham Street and the Great Northern in Amiens St both had back alley entrances where you could come and go with little chance of being seen.'Never look down on a person unless you're helping them up'.
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Originally posted by Rashers View PostWe stayed fairly local but apart from Rafters in Gardiner Street, the other two, Buckingham Street and the Great Northern in Amiens St both had back alley entrances where you could come and go with little chance of being seen.Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!
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I could pick out a few things from The Tenements that didn't look right.. they drank out of teacups.... no sign of 'tenement china' (jam jars).
In another part they show two men dragging a wooden pallet home for fuel. I wonder how far they'd got before a policeman had stopped them back then. I remember one of my uncles being sentenced to 7 days in Mountjoy after being stopped while struggling home with a wooden crate.'Never look down on a person unless you're helping them up'.
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Originally posted by Pammy View PostLol I thought the very same.....they would not have gotten away with it...'Never look down on a person unless you're helping them up'.
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Originally posted by quinner View Postmaire i would love to hear more.....i bet laughter was a big part too...the lesson i learned was fantastic..it is getting me through this life...i laugh at people now when they say they need this and that...they just make poblems, we learned to solve them
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Originally posted by Rashers View PostMarie, you could be telling my story. I lived in a tenement on Summerhill, later moving to reconditioned tenement in Lr Gardiner St.
I often went with my Granny to Empress Place to buy the hay, oh and my god the smell of that ddt is still in my nose. That stuff was banned after it was discovered it was killing us and a new one came on the market called 666.
The Tenements is not as accurate as I'd hoped it would be, it seems like the family they are depicting saw little or no hardships.
My wife live in a tenement in Nth Great Charles street too.... No 11 I think.... McLoughlin.
And years later Terry Kelly's became my local. It's a small world.
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Originally posted by Rashers View PostI think our families might have used the same facility.... Rafters pawn office. "Tan shoes in brown paper, 5 shillings and the name is...?"
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Originally posted by Rashers View PostWe stayed fairly local but apart from Rafters in Gardiner Street, the other two, Buckingham Street and the Great Northern in Amiens St both had back alley entrances where you could come and go with little chance of being seen.
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