Margaret Newman: Sunbeam Factory; Christmas, Nicknames,

Interviews with Margaret Newman:
 CFP00407; CFP00408; CFP00412:

MN: Now I remember long go when we were young Woolworths now there em it was the five an ten time I in America t’was in England too we had it here too Woolworths. T’was between Marlboro street, on Cook's street and Patrick's eh sorry and my mother, would say nothing but she’d take us in. Now she had three of us and she we’d go in an I loved the black dolls. And she’d we’d go into Woolworths an they’d be all there and she’d say ye have to tell eh Santa Claus now what ye want for Christmas because he’ll come in here like and he’ll order them he’ll order em whatever he can and Mary use ta say but how do you know mam well she said ye can shout it up the chimney. Tell Santa what ye want an I used to like the black dolls with the big earrings an then I started getting ones where their eyes could open an shut. If I had them today I have made a load of money and em my brother might say he’d want a train an that was grand and she my mother just we write it in a bit of paper and we’d put it into the fire and we’d leave it burn and t’would go up the chimney an he’d know. But I mean to say we were we were nine and ten years of age that time and we knew what was right an what was wrong. We, we, we, knew when, when our mothers had