[steeljack]

Willowthewisp's thread about problems with the gas board brought to mind days which don't seem that long ago when we had open coal fireplaces, one with tiles in front room and the black iron range in the kitchen , and someone mentioned a mangle in another thread.
I wonder how many can remember the tin bath hanging on a hook in the backyard and the copper boiler being fired up for bath night in the days before council grants, the worst part was emptying it when you were newly clean , either by ladling it out or dragging it to the back door without sloshing the water and tipping it out into the back yard
How many folks still have a rack in the back room for drying/airing laundry ? or remember going to the local ironmongers with a giant size pop bottle for parrafin to put in the lamp to stop the outside lav freezing up during winter nights .
Enough rambling on , I've become my Grandad