D-block GB-264000-846000
1986 SOCIAL CONCERN
Mrs.Gow has lived in her house for 81 years.It was built in 1789.Once it held 4 families who shared a toilet down the garden.That was common when Mrs.Gow was young.People had a lot of trouble with illnesses,especially T.B. The children round Grant Street could play"beddies"in the street and people could stand and talk.Seafaring men lived in Jamaica St.,India St.and Madras St.There were masons,joiners and shipbuilders.Now the shipyard is closed and the slipway is for sale.The old houses were bulldozed.The new council houses are nice with small porches and neat windows.Some are Sheltered Houses.You can still buy anything in Grant St._furniture,shoes, meat or medicine.Everyone's healthier. People don't have to work so hard.Mrs Gow likes watching the men building the Friars Bridge.
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