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This story belongs to Hannah

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and her nana, Anna!

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It's a tiny tale about Nana Anna,

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and a thing she used to do.

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Now it's time for her to share her memories, and take Hannah

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on a journey of discovery.

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Doesn't Hannah look just like

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her nana when she was a wee girl?

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Hannah's counting all her money.

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How much is there?

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-29.

-£29.

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-Did you save that up from your pocket money?

-Mm-hmm.

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-How much pocket money do you get every week?

-Usually, I only get one,

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-but sometimes, I get two.

-Sometimes, you get £2?

-Mm-hmm.

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When I was your age, do you know how much I got?

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How many?

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One penny.

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Only one penny!

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My dad used to come home from his work

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and give us all one penny pocket money.

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I had two sisters - the three of us

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used to run to the sweetie shop,

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and we could buy four different things for our pennies...

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Four packets of sweets for a penny! Lucky Nana Anna!

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That's a penny, isn't it? And there's an old penny.

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-They're much bigger.

-Much, much bigger, aren't they?

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Look what I've got here - I've got lots of old pennies!

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Look, Nana Anna has been saving her old pennies - just like Hannah!

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Look!

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-Dozens of them...

-They talked about long ago,

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when Nana Anna was a little girl.

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Hannah wants to find out more

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about her nana's life.

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Nana, tell me a story about your mum and dad.

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My dad came from Cork,

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which is a city in Ireland.

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My mother came from

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the other end of the country,

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a place called Donegal.

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Nana Anna's mum and dad came from Ireland,

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but moved to Glasgow, in Scotland, where they married.

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Her dad worked in the shipyards, where they built enormous ships,

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just like in this old film.

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He was a joiner, who made furniture

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for the bedrooms in the cabins where passengers slept.

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In the shipyard, they made huge boats - very, very famous boats,

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like the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, and the men

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who worked on the boats were very, very skilled workmen.

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This is one of the cabins inside the big ships.

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I think my dad must have worked on fitting out

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the cabins in these big luxury liners.

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Where is Hannah's nana taking her now?

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I'm going to take you to our sweetie shop, Hannah,

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which has been there for over 100 years. It's still got

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the same kind of sweeties that we used to buy with our Friday penny.

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Woah! What a lot of sweets!

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Ah, now, look at this magic shop!

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It's the kind of shop that I would have come to when I was your age.

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Let's see if we can find some of the sweeties

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that I would buy with my Friday penny.

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Oh, there's one - look!

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All the favourites of Nana Anna when she was a little girl!

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ABC letters was another one that I loved.

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And Lucky Potatoes.

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-Do you think the lady would let us taste some?

-Mm-hmm.

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-What is it you'd like?

-Could we maybe taste the ABCs?

-ABCs?

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-ABCs are lovely!

-Yes, ABC...

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Go on, try one, Hannah!

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I'll put them on a wee plate.

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-There you are.

-Oh, thank you!

-Thank you.

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What a treat for Hannah and Nana Anna!

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What will I try?

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Yum!

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Could I find an A for Anna?

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Mmm!

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Yummy!

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-Have a wee taste of some sherbet.

-Have a dip with a bit of liquorice.

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Oh, that's fizzy!

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-I like it.

-Mmm, she likes that. OK.

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Would you like to taste some of the Belgian chocolate mice?

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Of course she does!

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Thanks very much. Have a wee taste of that.

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Nibble it...

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Mmm!

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Can I have a wee taste of that, too? Mmm, got a lot of chocolate in it.

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Mmm.

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-Yummy!

-And what about some Lucky Tatties?

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-Hold on to the mouse.

-And I'll swap you over.

-Want to try one?

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Uh-oh!

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Hannah doesn't like that one!

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How much do you think that would cost now

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for those four things that I used to buy for a penny?

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That would be about £1.50 now.

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£1.50! That would be nearly all your pocket money -

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for four things! And I could get them all for a penny!

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Don't forget to brush your teeth, Hannah!

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When I was a little girl, Hannah,

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this is the street I lived in.

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And this building is called a tenement.

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And you can see, it's got three storeys - one, two, three.

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And I lived in the middle storey,

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and that was my house, there.

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There's loads of cars now,

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but when I was a little girl,

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one person had a car,

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and we thought that person was very rich.

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We'd play outside ALL the time.

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We'd play this game "bouncy" with a ball, a tennis ball.

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And the person who could do the most bounces without losing the ball

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won the game!

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One day, when I was cleaning out one of my cupboards,

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look what I discovered.

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An old case of your mum's dolls. And all these dressing-up clothes.

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She loved to dress up her dolls. There are all sorts of clothes.

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Now, I've got an idea.

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-How would you like to dress up today?

-Yeah.

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OK, let's do that, then, will we?

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This is the kind of dress I would have worn

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when your mum was a little girl. And that's the kind of dress

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-your mum would have worn. And guess who would have made the dress.

-You.

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Me. I used to make all her dresses when she was a little girl.

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-Do you like mine?

-Uh-huh.

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Don't you look sweet?!

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This is the kind of dress I would wear when I was a young lady,

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when I married your Gramps.

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How stylish was Nana Anna when she was young?!

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And you just look like a little schoolgirl from that time.

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Especially with your bunches.

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-Do you like your dress?

-Yes.

-Do you like my outfit?

-Uh-huh.

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Oh, looking good, Hannah!

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This is the kind of dress that my mum would have worn.

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That's the kind of dress I would have worn when I was little.

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Especially if I was going somewhere special.

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Hannah, you look lovely. You just remind me of Alice in Wonderland.

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Nanna Anna loved to get dressed up

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when she had days out with her family.

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We used to go to Glasgow on the tram.

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We always went upstairs and sat in the little front bit of the tram.

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I can always remember I always had to go up there

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as I got sick on the trams. There was a big exhibition

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called the Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park,

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which was a great excitement for children in those days.

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It was a big deal for your parents to take you

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to see the Empire Exhibition. It was absolutely magical.

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We saw Eastern buildings and all sorts of fancy buildings

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from all over the world.

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And we children were absolutely goggle-eyed

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at all that we saw in the Empire Exhibition.

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It was one of the magic things that stayed with you forever.

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Where to now, Hannah?

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They're off to visit an old house

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that has been kept the way it was when Nana Anna was a little girl.

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Oh, my goodness, this is just like the kitchen

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that I lived in when I was a little girl.

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That's called the bed recess, and that's where my mum and dad slept.

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What do you think this is, Hannah?

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-A carpet beater.

-A carpet beater.

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And what would happen would be that these rugs would be taken down,

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thrown over the washing line and beaten like that

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till all the dust went up in the air.

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That would be part of cleaning your house,

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to take your carpets down and beat them.

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What's that, Hannah?

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And this is what we call the range,

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where all the cooking was done. We used to light the gas rings,

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there, with a match. The cooking was done in those big pots.

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That is the oven at the bottom.

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We opened the door and did the baking in the oven.

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Where would you sleep,

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-if your mum and dad slept there?

-We slept in the other room,

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where there was another recess bed like that.

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Two of my sisters would sleep in there,

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and we had a kind of settee bed.

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The ones you could put down and fold up during the day.

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So your room looked like a sitting room during the day.

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That was where we slept, in that room, that was the sitting room.

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Would you rather have lived

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when I was a little girl, or would you rather be

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-a little girl nowadays?

-I'd rather be nowadays.

-Why?

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-Because I really like telly.

-Television.

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We didn't have any television, so we had to make our own fun.

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Let's walk over here and see what's over here.

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In those days, no-one had a washing machine.

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Everyone washed their clothes by hand,

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using a washboard and a wringer.

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This is the sink where some clothes would be washed,

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then they'd put the clothes through that wringer.

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See the handle, what would they do with the handle?

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-Spin it round.

-They'd turn the handle round.

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We used to call that "core the handle."

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That's what people used to say. "Let's core the handle."

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-What do you think that is?

-A washboard.

-How would you use it?

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You'd just put it in the sink.

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Yes, and then you'd rub your clothes up and down there,

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as you'd have soap on the washboard already,

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and then you would put the cloth back into the water,

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rinse the soap off it,

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and then you'd put it through there, the wringer.

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Thank you for a nice day out, Nana.

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I've just loved being back in this old tenement house,

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it's brought back so many memories.

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-What was your favourite part?

-Dressing up.

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Oh, you looked lovely in all the clothes. Your mum and me

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were always interested in fashion and dressing up.

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I can see another story starting here with you.

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Now, I think we'll go home on the bus, because I've got a...penny!

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Don't be silly!

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What a fabulous heap of fun!

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That was Hannah and Nana Anna's tiny tale

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about the things Nana Anna used to do and the fun she had,

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and why she has such a big, old penny.

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Nana Anna has shared her story with Hannah

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and now Hannah is starting her own story.

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Do you know someone with a story to share?

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