When newspapers encouraged children to read and engage, by having a 'Children's Corner' in the Saturday edition - when the height of luxury was to have a telephone in your home (instead of going round to the telephone box at the end of the next street).
Circus Parade
Bears and horses, elephants, too.
This is a circus and a zoo.
Dogs, lions, monkeys, tigers,
Now here come the bare-back riders.
The big parade comes through the town,
The children's favourite is the clown.
The tents will all be gay and bright
When the circus starts tonight.
Written by Susan Livesley, 28 Ferndale Road
Liverpool 15
