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DanaC · 08-26-2006, 02:27 PM

I was talking to my mum the other day. We were talking about her childhood in postwar Salford. her family were very poor but so were a lot of families at that time. She told me about a friend of hers, who was a little more affluent and who had fitted carpets in her house. She was envious of this and was very excited when the day came for them to get fitted carpets in their house. She must have been about 14 when those fitted carpets arrived.

It struck me when she was telling me about this, that the world had changed a lot between her childhood and mine. This little difference was one of many.

What do you think characterises most, the difference between the world your parents grew up in and the one in which they brought you up ?

08-26-2006, 02:27 PM	#1
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	The winds of change I was talking to my mum the other day. We were talking about her childhood in postwar Salford. her family were very poor but so were a lot of families at that time. She told me about a friend of hers, who was a little more affluent and who had fitted carpets in her house. She was envious of this and was very excited when the day came for them to get fitted carpets in their house. She must have been about 14 when those fitted carpets arrived. It struck me when she was telling me about this, that the world had changed a lot between her childhood and mine. This little difference was one of many. What do you think characterises most, the difference between the world your parents grew up in and the one in which they brought you up ?