Elgin

A wee close off the High Street, near to the wee close where my mother grew up, and that has now been demolished.

The story was that my great grandmother told my grandmother that she should move in to that house off the High Street, because the conditions were quite bad, and it had an outside toilet, shared with other families and that would mean they would be able to get a council house quicker. Then the Second World War broke out and they were there for longer than planned. They did eventually get a council house and that’s the house I’m writing this from, where my aunt still lives.