Responses to our Interviews!

We had to ask someone these questions, here are our fabulous answers.

1. What are the biggest changes in the environment since you were my age?
2. In what ways did you care for the environment when you were my age?

My Grandma Betty says: "We did not have washing machines". "All the washing was boiled in a copper". "There was no super markets,there was only dairy's,NO weekend shops". "If you wanted a penny ice cream you had to eat in a shop"! "Especially if you wanted to go to the toilet at the gardens you'd have to run to mummy and ask for a penny or two to put in the slot at the door."!!! "Then if we had a birthday-party for afternoon-tea we had pikletes all made by our mothers in a coal range, which our dads had to sweep out the chimney and clean the flue, then he put the soote on our garden".
Mickey


My Nana Collen says Groceries were all sold loose eg:cheese was cut from a big wheel. At the butchers meat was wrapped up in brown paper. Groceries were put into brown paper bags not plastic. There wasn't many cars people walked or caught cable cars,trains or buses. Nana said people didn't worry about the environment, they didn't talk about it.

My Nana Kay said There wasn't many cars so there was less pollution.They didn't have a lot of rubbish cause there wasn't a lot of foods in cans or bottles, and they put all their food scraps in a hole in the garden. People use to grow all their own veges and made their own jams and persevered fruits. Nana said they also made new foods out of left overs from meals eg: Bubble and squeak was made by frying up left over swede, cabbage and potato. Nana also said they didn't talk about the environment.
Georgia

My step Dad says................... There were no wind farms,there were not as many dairy farms ,there were no cellphones and there are more people littering. from Jessica

My dad said that it has changed because when you were at the tip you coudn't recycle but look at the tip now.
Jake

My Mum and step Dad say ..........
They picked up their rubbish,they did not use cars (they biked/walked).

Jessica

My dad Liam says The summers feel shorter,but the days feel hotter.
Jords

My dad Tony says The city has grown but we still have green grass and all the gardens. They had to put rubbish in the bin because we where told not to litter, the environment was not talked about and burning back yard rubbish and coal fires was normal.
Timothy

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