The album photo tag says ‘Janet, just washed hair, 1965’. A summers picture, my mother Janet Duncan, the youngest in the family has a towel wrapped up around her wet hair. The old Anderson Shelter, then used as a hut is apparent, which lasted even until I was an adult. Also, the strange object in the foreground, like a metal goalpost, was used to drape the rugs and carpets over, before beating the dust out them for cleaning. I remember it as a toddler, although by the mid 1970s, I’m sure the family got rid of it in favour of a modern Vacuum cleaner.
The house hasn’t changed too much, with exception of the windows, a loft conversion and as with most of the houses in the crescent, the reduced height of the chimney stacks for safety purposes.