Typical Saturday treats: The members of the group each contributed memories of what was, for them, a special treat for a Saturday. "My mother had such a big family - she liked a rest on a Saturday and there were about ten of us. So we used to get two and a half or two dozen penny pies which were heated at "Young Brothers" on a Saturday and they were lovely pies- I wish to hang we could get them now, the same! My mother would boil potatoes and peas to go with them, and that was Saturday." "We all went to the cinema and there were seven of us- we made a penny last us because you could get the farthing tray and then we had our comic for the night, for Saturday night. Probably between the four that could read comics there were maybe two comics bought & it was swapped about while dad was sitting listening to the crystal radio- you were quiet so he could listen to his radio. "It was tuppence for us to get into the cinema, or we used to get in for a jeelie jar - a jam jar- a two pound jar was tuppence. So many jam jars or so many lemonade bottles and we could go and take them and get money for them to the shops. So it finished up we all had tuppence each, or - we could just take them to the cinema. We saw "Roy Rodgers" or "cowboys and Indians" mainly. and Rin Tin Tin, Laurel & Hardy, and The Stooges." "I used to break my neck to see Shirley Temple! I remember Pearl White- the pictures always finished with her lying across a railway line and you had to wait 'til next Saturday! And then had to pester your mother for the money to go the following week. How often have I done that!" "We used to break up firewood and sell it 'round the doors. Me & my friend used to go to the Fruitmarket - "Mister- any empty boxes?" and we would come home - break the boxes up into bits of wood and you always used to get it sold- they all took their tuppence worth and that got us to the pictures." "There used to be a photographers up at the top of Lady Lawson Street and there always used to be weddings there on a Saturday - we went up and we were very crafty- we always carried a flat cardboard bit to put over the drains so we didn't lose any of the pennies that were thrown out! And in those days it was a heap of coppers thrown up in the air- we used to do really well!" "Peas and vinegar! On a Saturday some of our pocket money went that way- we went along to the High Riggs to this dark, dingy shop. The man always wore a long dark brown coat. Oh, but his peas and vinegar were lovely! We always made a point of going along there with some of our pocket money." "Children could go in the "jug bar"- a wee compartment. On a Saturday we would go up to the High Street to Rutherfords pub & Mrs. Brady would have her wee nip of beer or whatever and we would come & the fishwives were always sitting on the edge of the pavement. Actually it was Mrs Brady that introduced me to the saucer of mussels for thruppence but if mum and dad knew I was eating them they would have killed me because they maintained they weren't hygienic to eat" "It was really just looking round Woolworth's to what there was- everything was under six pence- you weren't really spending a lot of money...just a Saturday afternoon haunt. ...Back up the bridges again to P.T.s to watch the band play with the violins- it was lovely to watch people having their tea- we couldn't afford tea in a tearoom at that time." "And I always remember on Saturday night my dad used to take Alice (my young sister) and me to the Palladium and we used to go to Low's in Jeffrey Street and he used to buy us named sweeties and square chocolate to take with us to cabaret shows."

A treat might be a trip to the zoo!