When i was a kid living on lowedges in the late 60s early 70s there wasnt a lot of spending money to be had, due in part to both my parents having disabilities and both being on benefits (dont go there or i will take offence!!!) Yet all the other kids allways seemed to have the latest fad toys and gimmicks that were so prevalent in this era, ie; zammo kites, peter powell stunt kites, crickets (remember them ?) along with big bags of yorkshire mix !!! grrrrr they never used to share!!! so i took it upon myself to find a way to earn extra cash... Now i was not into nicking stuff from the local shops so opted for finding lost golf balls (not stealing!! and dont go into the legalities of taking golf balls from a golf course, talk to the hand !!!) the best places i found were the litttle streams that had about 6 to 8 inches of muddy silt in the bottom or gorse bushes ie: places that posh golfers did not want to venture, or beauchief ponds. in a day out equipped with wellies and a tough old parka i could find anything up to 100 golf balls in a day and by the way can still do it now !!! i used to go all round dore and totley then cross over where the bradway pub is and then go all around my regular haunts on abbeydale golf course before moving on to beauchief ponds and the golf course where i would find a ball washer and clean all my golf balls up and sit on beauchief drive in between two greens where i would sell them at 20p for a brand new condition one and 10p for pretty good condition ones. on a good day i would make up to £15 on a saturday, my record was £22.00 and im talking the 70s here. I was transformed by my efforts into the local rockafella as i allways had spare cash and not short of toys or gimmics again.... im sure im not unique in this pastime as i allways bumped into other kids from the estate all up to the same. just what did you do to earn extra money in sheffield when you were a kid

I had a car cleaning round from about age ten and a paper round, then a Saturday/Holiday job when I was 14 in a pork butchers. I used to wash Tommy Craigs (Owls player) car when he lived on Grove Avenue, David Sunley (another Owls player) who lived on Dixon Road and Sheffield beauty queen, Delise Humpries. I even met Anita Harris once at Delise's house.

Carol singing at Christmas. We used to make an absolute fortune in the Park Hotel on Christmas eve when they were all pi**ed. And 'penny for the guy', especially on match day...again, outside the Park Hotel.

Unfortuanetly I lost my entrepreneurial spirit somewhere along the line.

I had a double Sunday paper round from about age 12, then got a job in Crystal Peaks market on a mens wear stall as well. Babysitting a couple of nights each week and sometimes mon - fri straight after school.
I used to wash cars for people in the local area (Rother Valley) on a Sunday at £2 a car, lots of footballers, doctors and that sort who were willing to pay.
Then aged 14 I got a job as a sort of 'assistant DJ' in a pub. I don't think any of them knew I was only 14 and I kept the job until I was 18, working Friday Saturday and Sunday nights at The Crofts in Mosborough.
Aged 14 - 16 I did all those jobs every week and I was doing well!
I still have hare brained ideas for earning money now.....

When I was an ickle kid (7-10), I did catwalk modelling so that paid for a few bits and bobs for my mum as I used to get free clothes a lot from it.
I babysat faithfully from the age of 11 to 18 every Saturday night. I was really well behaved and took my duties ever so seriously. I remember a boyfriend coming round and asking if he could come in and I told him no!
I loved it to be honest - It was 7.30 - go round and play with Chris which got better as he got older as we'd dance around to Michael Jackson and then he'd get upset when I'd want the Jam on or something. We'd have a snack about 8 - usually Ribena and a bag of space raiders. He'd go to bed at 8.30 I'd read him a story, make him clean his teeth etc. He always went straight to sleep as I'd tired him out with the dancing/playing horses etc so I'd then do my homework whilst watching Saturday Live or Casualty as i recall. The parents would come back at 1030- 11 and I'd get £1.50! Then they stopped going dog racing and started going out to bars and they'd get back anytime between 12 and 2. I got £2.50 for this. I didn't like that so much as I never knew when they'd be back exactly. I remember once I fell asleep and they were banging on the door for a good half hour.
I also babysat a couple of times for some other people on the street but one of them had four sons, they ran me ragged, they didn't come in until 3 and I got paid the same - £1.50! I didn't do that one again.
I also used to take advantage of the seasons. I'd be out trick or treating. then it would be penny for the guy and then a week's holiday before the Carolling would start! We used to get loads!
I got a proper Saturday job aged 16 but carried on the babysitting for another two years until i went to uni.

Not much until I was old enough for a Saturday Job....
I used to work in a pet shop measuring out doggy treats ...actually some of them were quite tasty :)

When I was knee high to a Grass hopper.
I was out delivering milk at the crack of sparrow fart, in all kinds of weather.

None of these summer showers we're having now, but proper rain, the type rain that one drop soaked you through to next Wednesday. And snow, drifts as high as a ginnal end, I had to dig through to get to door step.

Cold... I'll tell thee about cold I'm only just starting to feel my fingers and toes after 40 Years.

When the milk round was finished and everyone in Sheffield, Barnsley, Chesterfield and Doncaster had soggy cornflakes, I went to my day job, dragging Old Jacks Rag 'n' Bone cart, His horse had died years ago, so me and Knuckles Brennan took turns dragging it up and down them hills, proper hills mind yer none of them posh hills with gutters and white lines.
We had cobbles as big as loaf of bread to walk on.

When all the Balloons had gone, we'd check all rags for pockets, yer be surprised what people leave in 'em.

Then it wer off to night shift, sweeping up after pit ponies. down that black hole and only one candle, when that when out it was hard, having to feel your way through pit. Lumps at a time, coal, coal, coal... warm coal... warm smelly coal... furry coal... oh bugger RAT.

Then it wer of home for a nights kip on washing line. before milk round again.
Fridays were best Bath night, whether you needed it not.

Tune in next week for more of the history of Holymoses!!!
:hihi:

I used to do gardening. I remember doing this old woman's garden so i had enough money to buy 'The Raven' by The Stranglers.

I used to take the cast iron sashes out of the demolished houses and weigh them in down the cliff, then I worked with the milkman for 4 years on a sat and before school.

when we were about 10/11 my friend and i used to go round the neighbours houses and wash there cars for a pound.......was only 15years ago too, remember going in peoples houses to fill up the buckets etc - just wouldnt happen these days!

When I was knee high to a Grass hopper.
I was out delivering milk at the crack of sparrow fart, in all kinds of weather.

None of these summer showers we're having now, but proper rain, the type rain that one drop soaked you through to next Wednesday. And snow, drifts as high as a ginnal end, I had to dig through to get to door step.

Cold... I'll tell thee about cold I'm only just starting to feel my fingers and toes after 40 Years.

When the milk round was finished and everyone in Sheffield, Barnsley, Chesterfield and Doncaster had soggy cornflakes, I went to my day job, dragging Old Jacks Rag 'n' Bone cart, His horse had died years ago, so me and Knuckles Brennan took turns dragging it up and down them hills, proper hills mind yer none of them posh hills with gutters and white lines.
We had cobbles as big as loaf of bread to walk on.

When all the Balloons had gone, we'd check all rags for pockets, yer be surprised what people leave in 'em.

Then it wer off to night shift, sweeping up after pit ponies. down that black hole and only one candle, when that when out it was hard, having to feel your way through pit. Lumps at a time, coal, coal, coal... warm coal... warm smelly coal... furry coal... oh bugger RAT.

Then it wer of home for a nights kip on washing line. before milk round again.
Fridays were best Bath night, whether you needed it not.

Tune in next week for more of the history of Holymoses!!!
:hihi: absolute quality holymoses :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

In the late 1950s I did what most kids did ie. a paper round, I did the usual mornings and evenings, then the green un Saturdays followed by Sundays plus if someone didn,t turn up I would do 2 rounds on Sundays.
On Saturdays i would deliver groceries on my "trolly" for Hemmings shop on Wadsley lane, apart from being paid i also got tips off the posh ladies around Langsett Avenue. 2 nights a week I helped at a butchers shop on Penistone rd in making sausages. On match days I helped run a cigs and sweet stall outside Sheila,s cafe next to SWFC.
You can imagine my shock when i turned 15 years old and started working properly. My first wage was £2..1..11d and i had been getting over £8 before.

as i mentioned once befor,stealing flowers fm the graves & selling them out front was always good for a few bob i know i sold the same big bunch of chris's 3times but everthing in war time was a little different &having run off from F.C.H just needed to eat

used to get up at 5 deliver milk till 8-30 and then to school,,,,also used to caddy at lees hall golf club 41/2 hours 60 pence for some loppy rich golfer,sometimes 2 rounds a day

I worked for the greengrocer just round the corner from Forster Road.I used to go out with him onto the estates in a big van & I would hang out of the door ringing a bell & shout come & get your tates.It was great.

In the mid thirties,at age 13,I was a nights and Saturday lad at the S & E
Co-op Vincent Rd. From school finishing, to 6 o'lock 3 days,8 o'clock Friday,
and all day Saturday 8.30 to 7 pm,and all for 3s.6d (18p). Deliveries were made by barrow. A few small tips,but not very many. Adult unemployment was rife in those days.

as kids we used to recycle some of the pop bottles from the Tizer factory yard and take them to the local shops for the returns money.

Happy days!

as kids we used to recycle some of the pop bottles from the Tizer factory yard and take them to the local shops for the returns money.

Happy days!

I like the word "recycle" is that posh for nicking? I used to do the same thing in the Tizer yard

as kids we used to recycle some of the pop bottles from the Tizer factory yard and take them to the local shops for the returns money.

Happy days!

Tizer, Pickup's Dandelion & Burdock, Ju-soda, it mattered not which, a 3d deposit to be had on all and we used to take them back to the beer-off on John Street when Yorkshire were playing at Bramall Lane. It wasn't a case of nicking, they were just discarded by shift-workers who were going on to 'afternoons' having been to The Lane for the morning session.
At the close of play, we earned 2/6d for collecting the red and green cushions for that Watford company that leased them.
In 1960, I also earned 2/6d a match for being a ball-boy at Hillsborough when the old North Stand had been demolished prior to the cantilever being built. Money with sport, what a life!

I used to deliver the Rotherham Record and Messenger. Probably earned about a tenner a week if there were leaflets in there.

I used to have a morning paper round from Alan and Johns newsagents at the Foster and delivered to the bottom of High Green and Burncross. I also had a Star round from GT News at Burncross. Shortly after i quit Alan and Johns as i got a morning round from GT which was nearer. I then took on a sunday round from GT News which soon became about 3 rounds. Add in to it a Rotherham Record delivery round which after 3 weeks became Rotherham Record delivering me 300 hundred newspapers with leaflets which ended up getting fly-tipped on Charlton Brook, which lasted all of 6 months. Also did a Candis round as well which was profitable.

All in all i used to earn about £30 a week

In 1956 I worked for Arthur Midgely as a "wringer out"

Arthur was a one armed window cleaner in the Darnall area.

I used to caddy up at golf coarse at norton about 1974 75 used to get ten bob for walking 18 holes once got a pound it was david ford used to play for wednesday. also worked on fair at oaks park[ shabba ]

Rotherham Record delivering me 300 hundred newspapers with leaflets which ended up getting fly-tipped on Charlton Brook

do you mean you didn't actually deliver any of them but took the money anyway? :o tch!

From being 13ish I was a "shampoo girl" at a hair salon in City Centre, worked Thursday and Friday nights from 4pm until 7.30pm and Saturday morning 8 am until 12ish for the princely sum of 7s 6d :)

In the winter my hands used to get really dry and 'chapped' and very painful. We had to sweep the floors, clean the mirrors, keep the towels topped up, search through the hair bin for discarded grips, clips, rollers :gag:, make coffees and teas for the clients and staff, go out for sarnies, ciggies, take out rollers and make sure the combs, brushes, clips and rollers were disinfected if a client was suspected of having an 'infestation' as well as shampooing hair and applying coloured water rinses.

It was hard work and I was glad when I left school and was able to get a proper job in an office :D

I used to go shopping for an old lady who lived just round the corner from us. She couldn't get out to do it herself, so I went round every Saturday morning, picked up the shopping list and money, and off I went. I used to get 2 shillings, which was a fortune then. I also loved stripping wallpaper so was often called on by various relatives, neighbours etc to go and help them strip the walls when they decided to decorate! Can't bloody stand it now.........

shoplift :R

shoplift :R

Phew finaly, iwas begining to think every one in Sheffield where abunch of saint's,thats all but me of course:hihi::hihi:

Paper lad for years delivered 72 stars each night not 20 odd like todays.
Also nicked empty pop bottles from local shops shed then returned them for the 3d deposit.
Cheeky little sod werent I.

as kids we used to recycle some of the pop bottles from the Tizer factory yard and take them to the local shops for the returns money.

We used to do that too! I presume you're talking about the Tizer factory at the corner of Beulah and Penistone Roads?

Another thing we used to do was "save" cars for people on Sheffield Wednesday home games. Living so close to the Theatre of the Gods, people used to park outside our house on Lofthouse, and we would look after their cars til after the match....well that was the theory anyway. Most times we'd move onto the next victim as soon as they were out of sight. Usually got about 2/- a car though.

My other main money making job was being in the choir at St John's at Owlerton.....this was a real earner getting 3/- a wedding and 5/- each month. Some Saturdays, we could do about five weddings! We also did the odd funeral mid week which meant time off school as well as another 3/-.

Later on I worked as a van lad at Newbould's bakery on a Saturday starting at about £2:00 for the day. This was better if you got a short round, as you'd be home for dinner time, but if you got Hope Valley, Barnsley or Chesterfield, you wouldn't be back til 5ish and after starting work at 7am it was a bloody long day for £2. I know what my kids would say if I suggested that they work 10 hours for £2!!!

From about 1955-1958. delivered newspapers for a shop on Ecclesall Road. Every day, except Xmas Day was a working day [ except family summer
holidays, of course ] and the weather could be awful. On my bicycle I did 2 rounds every morning [ 6.45 a.m.-7.30 a.m and 7.30 a.m.-8.am.] going as far as Melbourne Ave. in one direction and Psalter Lane in the other. Then breakfast, then off to school.

In the afternoon I did 1 round and on Sundays 3 small rounds, on foot, round the Ecclesall Road area. The grand total for all 6 rounds was 1 pound 4 shillings.
However, 5 park drive cigarettes then were only about 4 new pence so it seemed a well-paid job at the time !

I had a paper round, did babysitting, I also 'recycled' the Tizer bottles :) and when I was 14 I worked in a shop at evenings and weekends.

Cant really compete with holymoses - priceless :hihi:

But

Every Whisuntide - knocking on every door in the street to show off my new suit
Every Christmas Eve - Singing carols (I can't sing) with my cousin around Heeley Green
November - Penny for the guy then spent it all on fireworks
Late 50's - Lookout for the Pitch and Toss outside the Magnet at Southey Green
Also made tidy sums on recycling empty pop bottles from the back of the sweet shop to the front and collecting the 3p deposit.
Then an honest job delivering "The Star" on Swanbourne Road/ Masters Road

We used to do that too! I presume you're talking about the Tizer factory at the corner of Beulah and Penistone Roads?

Another thing we used to do was "save" cars for people on Sheffield Wednesday home games. Living so close to the Theatre of the Gods, people used to park outside our house on Lofthouse, and we would look after their cars til after the match....well that was the theory anyway. Most times we'd move onto the next victim as soon as they were out of sight. Usually got about 2/- a car though.

My other main money making job was being in the choir at St John's at Owlerton.....this was a real earner getting 3/- a wedding and 5/- each month. Some Saturdays, we could do about five weddings! We also did the odd funeral mid week which meant time off school as well as another 3/-.

Later on I worked as a van lad at Newbould's bakery on a Saturday starting at about £2:00 for the day. This was better if you got a short round, as you'd be home for dinner time, but if you got Hope Valley, Barnsley or Chesterfield, you wouldn't be back til 5ish and after starting work at 7am it was a bloody long day for £2. I know what my kids would say if I suggested that they work 10 hours for £2!!!

Did you by any chance know terry/tony turton they were in the choir then?

My first Saturday job, as such, was at Nirmal's (of West Street, megga restaurant) corner shop on Mulehouse Road, Crookes. I used to help her and OH unload from cash & carry and generally tidy that little shop, sorting any bad fruit etc. I got paid in goods, 2oz sweets or something!! LOL

We called it "The Indian Shop" and I loved being there, Nirmal has always been an amazing cook and ran cookery lessons in her kitchen through the back of shop and the smell that filled the shop was out of this world, homely, spicey..mmmmmm fantastic foods.

I got all nostalgic for a mo. !!!:)

Circa 1953 when I had just started as an apprentice at Owlerton Green Garage, Frank Verie (Think that was his name, Manager of The Sheffield Tigers) asked me to wash his Austin Atlantic and he gave me 10 Shillings, Thought I had died and gone heaven. Still have a Ten Bob note (under glass) but its not that one

Circa 1953 when I had just started as an apprentice at Owlerton Green Garage, Frank Verie (Think that was his name, Manager of The Sheffield Tigers) asked me to wash his Austin Atlantic and he gave me 10 Shillings, Thought I had died and gone heaven. Still have a Ten Bob note (under glass) but its not that one

Like most kids in the 50's I used to take the milk and pop bottles back, run errands, babysit, carol singing on Christmas Eve, we always knew the good payers, sit out side the Fox House pub on Shirland Lane and the Staniforth Arms on Staniforth Road on the lead up to Bonfire night. Did a paper round when we moved to Middlewood, I had the Langsette Ave round, I now drive up that hill and think how fit I must have been!

i washed cars and got myself a paper round

Just after the war I used to deliver Xmas mail. I sorted & put in the bag post for the area around Masters Rd. The sorting office was at Firth Park. There was one house, no one in during the morning, who had a very noisy aggresive dog, I had to laugh , as I put the mail through the letter flap I could hear the dog tearing it to pieces.

In the late 60s when I was a 5-6 year old, me & dad had walk in Norfolk Park & collect conkers by the bagful ... take em home & kids up the road would come down & buy em. Made quite a few pennies ..fortune for a young-un.

I used to deliver the Sheffield Star 6 evenigs a week - 36 papers weighed an awful lot and wouldn't be allowed today! I think I got paid the princely sum of £1.32p for the week - it seemed a lot of money to me !

I used to deliver the Eckington Leader around Basegreen Estate but soon got bored of it in crap weather. Started babysitting instead.

i washed cars and got myself a paper round


How much to wash mine :)

As a kid i used to find golf balls on the park and sell em . Easy money :)

I had a paper round at NSS/Forbuoys on Newfield Green, covered most of Gleadless Valley from Spring Close Mount to Abney Road to Overend Drive. Got £10.40 a week off t'old Morris. :)

Used to take on all the extra rounds when people were off for a few extra pence.

i used to collect and sell golf balls, 3-10 for a £1, once i sold 16 for £20.
i had paper rounds (at one point id skip school and do about 4 rounds in the morning.
id buy duty free cigarettes for about £2.50 and sell them seperately at school, getting back £5-6 per pack. occasionally cd's and sweets too.

trick or treating was a 3 day event and we'd stay at relatives on different estates, to trick or treat that estate, and of course we would visit the best houses twice with a different costume on lol

Nothing much, took bottles back to buy comic books to swap, guy fawkes night, got a few pennies, started fulll time work at 15.

I used to collect clay pigeons from the shoots in Greno woods and sold them back to the farmer who organised the shoot (swapped them actually for bales of hay/straw for my horse).

First time he told us to do it I spent ages looking for something 'pigeon' shape - went back and told him 'couldn't find any pigeons put I found lots of saucer shaped discs !!!'

I worked every Saturday, and most holidays, in the indoor market in Sheffield, between 1972-74, I worked on a menswear stall, there were jeans, trousers coats etc, and in those days people has different inside leg measurements for the trousers and I used to get dirty comments about me holding the tape measure, I only held the bottom they were welcome to hold the top.
There was a lot of memories in those 2 years, once or twice we got evacuated with bomb scares

i had agood laugh when reading holy moses history.this is my first reply cant you guess.im also old enough to remember taking bottles back for deposit,and taking clothes to rag yard

I delivered papers, worked in a butchers shop during the war making sausages out of pig fat and sawdust. I worked in Gowers on Sharrow lane delivering Saturday morning. One morning a city councilor was talking to the manager and at the same time dipping his hand in the baccy barrel. The next Saturday I switched the baccy barrel for a black treacle one, what a wonderful sight seeing him trying to hide his hand dripping black sticky treacle all over his suit.

The manager didn't know he was pinching baccy but we all had a laugh for weeks after that.

Like most kids, I started off in the early 50's with a paper round in Richmond. As I recall, I was paid 6/6d per week for mornings, evenings and Sundays.
When I was about 15, I had a job at a pub in Millhouses, bottling up on Sunday mornings.
A little later I had a job playing double bass with a dance band and I graduated to a jazz band in the city. I kept this one up after I left school.

i used to do the usual morning and evening paper rounds and my mum use to work as a warden in a old peoples complex so me and my bro use to go and see if they needed any chores doing

I used to have a morning paper round from Alan and Johns newsagents at the Foster and delivered to the bottom of High Green and Burncross. I also had a Star round from GT News at Burncross. Shortly after i quit Alan and Johns as i got a morning round from GT which was nearer. I then took on a sunday round from GT News which soon became about 3 rounds. Add in to it a Rotherham Record delivery round which after 3 weeks became Rotherham Record delivering me 300 hundred newspapers with leaflets which ended up getting fly-tipped on Charlton Brook, which lasted all of 6 months. Also did a Candis round as well which was profitable.

All in all i used to earn about £30 a week

When was this? because I too had a paper round in the mid 70's at the newsagents on the fosters, I did Angram bank, Oak lodge road and Thompson hill, 65 papers on my bike. Then on Saturday I did a double, Star then the Green-uns. I remember I only had 11 Green-uns to deliver but one was all the way down Greengate lane. And I was lucky to get 2.10 a week, and I had to give half to me mum ...

That's it if off to shout at my teenager he's in his bedroom playing playstation ... In the words of Norman Tebbitt, "Get on your bike and find a job"

StJohn
Cincinnati Kid

I didn't grow up in Sheffield, but my money making came from working as a cartwright on the local market, working on a couple of stalls when the opportunity came (that was less back breaking than working on the carts and paid £5 a day instead of the £4 I got for the manual labour), an Avon round and a few hours on a Sunday supervising all of the small kids in the area who were taking violin lessons and wouldn't do their practice.

I did my fair share of babysitting too.

Spending money? You name it, I did it. Did the usual newspaper round where I lived on the Stradbroke estate. Worked during school and univ. vacations at Davy's making pork pies and at Express Dairy bottling milk. Christmas post, even garbage collecting. I hated that job because the regular guys used to sit in the trucks and make the students do all the work lugging dustbins back and forth. Numerous building sites. Last time I visited Sheffield, I had to ask for directions. Yes, after all these yrs., it happens. The barmaid used the Fire station on Mansfield Rd near Manor Top as a reference point. I told her that this would bring bk memories as I helped to build the thing. The neatest job I had was at the Embassy ballroom, also on Mansfield Rd., checking in coats or taking money at the door. Manager there was Ron Storey, ably assisted by bouncers Bert and Lol.

As a teenager I worked for Addsetts, they had icecream stalls at The Farm Grounds on Granville Road during the Fair. They also used to sell ice cream and drinks at the football matches and had sweet shops.

When i was a kid living on lowedges in the late 60s early 70s there wasnt a lot of spending money to be had, due in part to both my parents having disabilities and both being on benefits (dont go there or i will take offence!!!) Yet all the other kids allways seemed to have the latest fad toys and gimmicks that were so prevalent in this era, ie; zammo kites, peter powell stunt kites, crickets (remember them ?) along with big bags of yorkshire mix !!! grrrrr they never used to share!!! so i took it upon myself to find a way to earn extra cash... Now i was not into nicking stuff from the local shops so opted for finding lost golf balls (not stealing!! and dont go into the legalities of taking golf balls from a golf course, talk to the hand !!!) the best places i found were the litttle streams that had about 6 to 8 inches of muddy silt in the bottom or gorse bushes ie: places that posh golfers did not want to venture, or beauchief ponds. in a day out equipped with wellies and a tough old parka i could find anything up to 100 golf balls in a day and by the way can still do it now !!! i used to go all round dore and totley then cross over where the bradway pub is and then go all around my regular haunts on abbeydale golf course before moving on to beauchief ponds and the golf course where i would find a ball washer and clean all my golf balls up and sit on beauchief drive in between two greens where i would sell them at 20p for a brand new condition one and 10p for pretty good condition ones. on a good day i would make up to £15 on a saturday, my record was £22.00 and im talking the 70s here. I was transformed by my efforts into the local rockafella as i allways had spare cash and not short of toys or gimmics again.... im sure im not unique in this pastime as i allways bumped into other kids from the estate all up to the same. just what did you do to earn extra money in sheffield when you were a kid

Hi nabsdabs ,as a14yr old when the war broke, every window had to be blacked out at night, l made a temp;cover for our windows from tile lath and sisalcraft which was durable and cheap, fastened to the window frames with turn buttons,when Mam told the neighbours l was swamp with orders and made a lot spending cash l think this was a springboard for l started in business at 22 yrs old, Cheers Arthur.