Well we had it tough. There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small cardboard shoebox in the middle of the road. We used to have to get up out of the
shoebox in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, and lick the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of
freezing cold gravel to eat then it was off to work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill. When we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken
bottle - if we were lucky.