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OT - B ritain in the 1950s
A bit of nostalgia - a terraced house in Liverpool that has not been
altered since the 1950s plus some dockland scenes. I remember those kitchen cabinets. That bathroom looks very cold too, I remember as a child hurrying my weekly bath so that I could get dried and then sit in front of the coal fire in my pyjamas to get warm again. http://tinyurl.com/7u4but3 -- ©2012 Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney (Remove dentures to reply) If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around is he still wrong? |
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On 3/16/2012 6:53 AM, Bruce wrote:
A bit of nostalgia - a terraced house in Liverpool that has not been altered since the 1950s plus some dockland scenes. I remember those kitchen cabinets. That bathroom looks very cold too, I remember as a child hurrying my weekly bath so that I could get dried and then sit in front of the coal fire in my pyjamas to get warm again. http://tinyurl.com/7u4but3 Thanks for that wonderful bit of nostalgia. Dianne |
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On Friday, March 16, 2012 11:53:42 AM UTC, Bruce wrote:
A bit of nostalgia - a terraced house in Liverpool that has not been altered since the 1950s plus some dockland scenes. I remember those kitchen cabinets. That bathroom looks very cold too, I remember as a child hurrying my weekly bath so that I could get dried and then sit in front of the coal fire in my pyjamas to get warm again. http://tinyurl.com/7u4but3 -- ©2012 Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney (Remove dentures to reply) If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around is he still wrong? Actually, Rodney Street was considered a 'Posh' road in Liverpool and was where Doctors and other Middle Class folk lived . And yes I recognise most of the items from my youth. Thanks Bruce. Jan in chilly Wiltshire |
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OT - B ritain in the 1950s
On 2012/03/16 01:53 PM, Bruce wrote:
A bit of nostalgia - a terraced house in Liverpool that has not been altered since the 1950s plus some dockland scenes. I remember those kitchen cabinets. That bathroom looks very cold too, I remember as a child hurrying my weekly bath so that I could get dried and then sit in front of the coal fire in my pyjamas to get warm again. http://tinyurl.com/7u4but3 We were lucky. We didn't have a bathroom, so our baths were taken in a tub in front of the kitchen fire. We didn't have hot water either, until after the war when we had a small gas geyser put in the kitchen. We heated water in a bucket on the gas stove for washing ourselves, and dishes, washed clothes in a corrugated metal tub with a "dolly peg", and boiled what was necessary in the "copper" with a fire lit under it. We had a big old mangle to squeeze everything, and break the buttons if you weren't careful! That house looks quite modern compared to what I remember! No stainless steel sink, but a stone sink and wooden drainboard. The toilet was at the end of the backyard, with a wooden seat from wall to wall, and with newspaper carefully torn into squares, hanging with string from a nail. Memories! Joyce in RSA. |
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On 20/03/2012 11:43, Joyce in RSA wrote:
On 2012/03/16 01:53 PM, Bruce wrote: A bit of nostalgia - a terraced house in Liverpool that has not been altered since the 1950s plus some dockland scenes. I remember those kitchen cabinets. That bathroom looks very cold too, I remember as a child hurrying my weekly bath so that I could get dried and then sit in front of the coal fire in my pyjamas to get warm again. http://tinyurl.com/7u4but3 We were lucky. We didn't have a bathroom, so our baths were taken in a tub in front of the kitchen fire. We didn't have hot water either, until after the war when we had a small gas geyser put in the kitchen. We heated water in a bucket on the gas stove for washing ourselves, and dishes, washed clothes in a corrugated metal tub with a "dolly peg", and boiled what was necessary in the "copper" with a fire lit under it. We had a big old mangle to squeeze everything, and break the buttons if you weren't careful! That house looks quite modern compared to what I remember! No stainless steel sink, but a stone sink and wooden drainboard. The toilet was at the end of the backyard, with a wooden seat from wall to wall, and with newspaper carefully torn into squares, hanging with string from a nail. Memories! Joyce in RSA. We also had a tin bath on the hearth. Water ladled out from the boiler at the side of the fire. The house was made from an old farm building with a stone front and brick back. The copper was outside across the yard open to all weathers. The toilet was a tuppenny bus ride up the garden path. My job on a Saturday was to cut the weeks papers into squares, punch holes in the corners and string them up. That is how I remember WW11. Shirley -- Shirley www.allcrafts.org.uk |
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