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I
went to work for a local cow keeper, Joseph Owen at 15 Ellison
Street, off Great ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r Street. The cows were kept in what
was called a shippon.
I
delivered milk in bottles in a cast iron tray, attached to
the front of my bike. I delivered in the Great ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r Street
area - out to Everton Valley, which included cycling up the
brow. I used to push the bike up there.
I
could also go to the shippon to get fresh milk. I just took
a jug down there and they milked the cow then and there!
I
was then a bread delivery boy, aged 14, for Louis T. Kelly
in Sleepers Hill. This was l932. I got £1 a week.
Louis
was the father of Theo Kelly, the Everton Manager.
I
used to ride a Rudge delivery bike with a big basket in front,
a bit like a small penny farthing bike.
I’d go as far as Gladstone Dock and deliver to the dock gateman
there. It was very safe, virtually no cars on the roads.
I used to have to go in on a Sunday to put a sort of cauldron
into the ovens, to get them ready for the Monday bake. They
used to bake "cottage loaves", "viennas" and "Hovis" - but
all unsliced, there was no sliced bread then.
Sometimes
the posher custmers would give me a Christmas box.
After
that, I worked in Bunnies, at the corner of Whitechapel, it
was a lovely shop, they sold everything there.
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