Doreen Dixon
Doreen Barratt was born in Nuneaton in the Midlands and moved to Calgarth in 1945 at the age of eighteen months. Her dad worked for the Ribble buses and they lived at 62 Calgarth Road for nine years. When the houses started to be cleared, the family moved to 20 Broadfield Road, where they lived for a year before moving to Windermere in 1955.
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- Ref.Number: FB026
- Date: 27.3.07
- Interviewer (I): Liz Rice
- Subject: Life as a child on Calgarth
- Period: 1945-1955
D
Yes – just along from each house I don’t know if they’re on there or if they’re just all houses, you had what you called a pram shelter – have people told you?
I
Is that what those?
D
Every house had a pram shelter, I mean, say your house was there, your pram shelter was just up there, and you kept your pram, your lawnmower, different things in like that
I
And what did they look like – can you describe them.
D
Just – all in a row – 1,2,3,4,5, with a door on, you know about this height – not very big at all, that would just fit a pram in and a lawnmower and perhaps a few tins of paint and that’s it – it was just a flat row of about 4 or 5. Flat roof, brick with a door on each<./p>
I
So did you have your number on each door?
D
Yes and the doors were green!
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