N. Me and Patsy like?
M. Yeah
P. Well we should really talk about Brick Street do you remember that?
N. She has just asked the question ‘did we both live in Cornwallis Street?' and I am answering her
P. Go on then
M. Did you live in Brick Street first?
N. Oh yeah we were all born in Brick Street
M. Start off with Brick Street then.
N. Okay then
P. You ask the questions and I’ll make the tea
N. See! She’s getting out of it already
M. Well what about Brick Street?
P. That is where we were born
M. Okay Leave the tea for a minute I’ll record for ten minutes and then we will have a cup of tea, okay?
N. Well we were a big family all of us, there were three families all connected but one big family there were seventeen of us all living in Brick Street together wasn’t thee?
P. Mmmm
N. We all had our little fights but all our children got on alright
P. That was when we were young you see and we were all married from there
N. Oh Aye yeah
M. Where is Brick Street?
N. Facing St Vincent’s Church, there is Brick Street and Norfolk Street we used to go from Norfolk Street to Brick Street you know
P. The Girl’s school was in Norfolk Street and the Boy’s school was in Brick Street. We had our kids there didn’t we?
N. Was our Colin born in Brick Street?
P. Of course he was
M. What type of housing was it?
P. It was an old Public House and we had two addresses
N. We had 56 Brick Street and the corner of that 61 Simpson Street and we had an Aunty that lived with us and she always used the address 61 Simpson Street but it was one house, do you know what I mean?
P. With it being a pub.
M. Did you live above the pub?
P. It wasn’t a pub then, just an ordinary house with no back kitchen
N. No it wasn’t a pub then
P. There was no back kitchen was there?
N. No everyone used to wash in the yard in their bare feet, we used to have a little fire built and boiled the water to wash the clothes
P. and we always had the turkey’s there for Christmas running around and then they got killed. I hated that.
N. It was a good house like you know we all very happy in it. Everyone was a good family and there was loads of us living in it wasn’t there?
P. Oh yeah and then it was condemned and we went to Cornwally
N. You would go past this block of flats and say ’God I’d Love to live there’ there was one block on its own.
P. I never lived there I lived in 17 Great George’s Square
N. Well I went on the bottom, my mother was over me and my cousins who lived with us in Brick Street they went as well and we got three houses and everyone used to call it McGee’s Mansions, that was my mother’s name before she got married. She was known as Cissy McGee and do you know all the people that talk about you they would say
P. How did that family get three houses on the one block?
N. McGee’s Mansions
P. It wasn’t malicious when they talked about us, that was just a rumour