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Post war-- were there any improvements that you saw in the
kitchen?
Oh yes, I had a fridge. When my first baby was born in
1957, I came home from hospital to this big surprise, which was a fridge, not a fridge freezer, in
the corner of the kitchen. I don't know which was more surprise, which was more
delight, my baby son or this fridge in the corner. I really thought I'd
arrived. "Oh, a fridge, I've got a fridge." It was good having a
telephone, but now- a fridge. "Goodness me." And how everything was
taken for granted. Incredible the change.
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So along
came the refrigerator.
What was the advantage for a young mum suddenly to have this refrigerator in
your kitchen? Oh, a great advantage. I lived
out quite in the country. I had to walk about two or three miles with the pram
to do the shopping, didn't have a car in those days, so anything I could bring
back especially in the dairy line, milk. Milk was delivered of course, that was
lovely, it didn't go sour. I didn't have to find water to stand it in, put it
out in the shed or anything like that. I put it in this refrigerator, cheese
you could keep at the bottom of the fridge. It was a great asset. It was one
step up the ladder for someone like me. Although I'd lived in hospitals up to
then, so when I did my training, I was of course in a hostel, you felt you were
going to go somewhere. It just took a little bit of the strain off you a bit,
so much so that I sit down one day, "What the women do nowadays." It
sounds awful, "In our day- we didn't have that." You do wonder
sometimes.
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