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You will have back to back two up two down houses that there may be fifteen in a row and they have one back alley, a ginnel is between two gable ends, that is a ginnel. Or you may have, if it's an exceptionally long terraced house, they used to have a ginnel t'gu t' communal toilet, between the houses if you will, so you'd have two front windows but a ginnel in between. They actually built a ginnel between the houses because, if they needed to go quickly, it's a damn long way to run roun', run roun' t'other way t'go back alley, so you go through ginnel.

And it was all very windy as well because it went straight down to the drain, you see. And there was nothing so the wind would come round the drain, wouldn't it? And if it was windy you'd sit there and be windy. My brother frightened me to death because he used to say if you sit on a long time, a rat would come up and bite your bottom and I used to dread goin' to t'toilet."

I think it's just an age thing, but we tend to call people "dogs"...someone's a "dog" ..."mostly female, is a "dog" ... say if you're out in town or something and you say someone's a "dog", it's just accepted.

An aunt of mine, er, she's what, in her mid-eighties now, they were living on Briercliffe Road and she can remember a little kitten,. It er, got too inquisitive and dropped down the long drop and they ad to pull it out coz they shuffed a brush down then it could grab owd o' the brush an get brough up again, so I don't know how many animals got, er, treated like that, but you see they didn't have lids on , they just had a seat with a hole in but they dint have your normal lid that you have on a loo now, so there's no telling what could get down."

I can. I can remember being in bed with measles and my mother saying , uh, well, grandma saying come in and look, she's there in bed... Oh yeah, you missed school, they were... knocking on your door."