Primary school was always great for making you paranoid.
Dylan:
Yeah.
Rebecca:
Yeah, it was actually. Everything seemed like massive deals, like, little tiny things was, like, end of the world.
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Dylan:
I remember a tile blew off our roof and we all had to go home. Like, we got, like, a day and a half off 'cause there was a tile blown off the roof.
Interviewer:
'Cause they don't want it to fall on the children's heads. Yeah, I thought I was never gonna drink and never gonna smoke at primary school because of the way that they taught us about them.
Rebecca:
Yeah.
Dylan:
Do you know what's funny? The teachers are nothing like that themselves.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Rebecca:
And you're one of them, so.
Dylan:
Aye, oh I know.
Older speakers
Elaine:
And the two girls were put into service. They were maybe say-- say maybe 14 and 13 and they were-- their mother-- they didnae want to be orphans, you see, or go to Barnardos or any of these places so they put them into a-- in to be servants in a big house.
Irene:
Aye.
Elaine:
So that's what-- but they both were taken to the same house
Irene:
Mhm.
Elaine:
and they worked there. Then they didnae like it so they left, they just left. So how they got away with it was they put all their clothes on. You know, everything that they possessed which wasnae very much. But they wore, say they had two dresses, well they put two pair of pants on which were long like drawers, their-- all their petticoats that they owned, their two dresses and their two coats and a' their scarves and left that way so as that nobody would see them leaving wi a case and they just had their handbags which was big type
Irene:
Mhm.
Elaine:
like a travelling bag and left. They went out on their day off, never came back. And they had boyfriends
Irene:
Mhm.
Elaine:
and they were in-- the first world war of course just had finished
Irene:
Mhm.
Elaine:
so they went to America, they emigrated to America, the four of them.
