Singing in the choir at St Andrew’s – by VG

Did you attend church?  No, the children, because the local church, I think the choirboys were paid sixpence a week or something and so they heard about this from one of their friends who was a choir boy.  You’d both get a bit of pocket money for this so they all joined, they could all sing in tune, and at one point  I think the five of them constituted the choir and so we didn’t go to church we weren’t church people and I remember the vicar called to see us, he realised we weren’t church people but the children were the choir and he said to one of them “So you like singing do you lad” or something like that and he said “we do it for the money” (laughter).