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Originally Posted by keith higson
In a tin bath eh, thats posh. In the 40s whilst living in York St, Church I remember being bathed in the "Slopstone" acka "Earthenware Sink".
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Bet it was cold for a bare bum, sitting on a slopstone sink drainer in winter!
I'm sure my grandmother(and maybe my mother) used to collect all the nearly finished bits of household soap and drop them in a jam jar with a bit of water in it- dissolved and made a sort of liquid soap for washing clothes.