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LOOKING back on my childhood in the Fifties, we were really green in more than one sense. Our daily milk was delivered in returnable milk bottles from an electric milk float. Our weekly groceries were delivered in a cardboard box, which we often returned to the grocer.
When sliced loaves came in, they were in delivered in greaseproof paper, which my mother wrapped our sandwiches in for work. There were no plastic bags or bin-liners; we lined the bins with newspaper. When I started work, I went on a trolley bus, silent and clean.See the full content of this document
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The Way We Were ; Letters
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