Gardening

The kitchen tap - Had to take the watering can into the kitchen and fill it and in those days they were all heavy, they were corrugated to protect them from rust and I suppose they were iron - they were quite a weight, a three gallon watering can filled with water you need a good bit of muscle.

Oh yes, nobody as far as I can remember in West Ham used a hose.

What about pruning and cutting your plants, did you have particular tools for doing that?

Scissors for the softwood and pruners, nothing like you have nowadays, more like a pair of wire cutters, two blades and you squeezed them together.

And they were sold for pruning?

Yes, I don't remember a pruning tool like you can buy today at all, if you'd been a professional gardener you probably could get one, but the poor person like I was in those days just used the wire cutting tools.