'What was life like before the war?' - Reader's letter

This is in the days before everything we now have was considered essential.

One of my many memories is from the days before Nye Bevan introduced the National Health Service.

Doctors had their surgeries in the front room of their home.

It cost one shilling and six pence to visit them and three shillings and six pence for a home visit.

Pharmacies were still in the distant future and Chemists just sold toothbrushes and general toiletries.

I have no memory of the reason of my visit to the doctors but, before leaving his surgery he told me : “Come back after six o'clock and your medicine will be on my back doorstep in the pink bottle on the lefthand side". It was!

I have many more memories of the good old days, and I'm hoping other readers can offer something more interesting to me than the usual serious stuff.

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