SIR – Your article ‘Life was sweet aboard boat full of chocolate’ (Worcester News, December 16) brought back a few memories.
As a young girl in the 40s- 50s, living a few yards from the canal – Park Street Lock – we would wait on the towpath for the barge to come through on Friday evenings with its cargo piled up and covered with a tarpaulin.
One of these kind and friendly gents handed out small brown bags filled with this wonderful crumb...
delicious.
A bit of light relief from the stench of the nearby tannery, rationing, and NHS cod liver oil and orange juice, which we were made to drink. Yuk.
Happy days.
MARGARET MORSE
Worcester
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